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Live in Cinemas: Swan Lake

2428 April 2024

Live in Cinemas: Swan Lake

2428 April 2024

Live in Cinemas: Swan Lake

2428 April 2024
Ballet and dance

Watch classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness live from the Royal Opera House stage in a cinema near you.

A group of Royal Ballet artists dance onstage in white tutus in a performance of Swan Lake.
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Live from Wednesday 24 April 2024 at 7.30pm (BST), with Encore screenings from Sunday 28 April 2024 at 2pm (BST)

Running time
The performance lasts about 3 hours, including two intervals.
Approximate running times:
Guidance
BBFC rating: 12A
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Background

Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?

Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Opening in Spring and returning in Summer, Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.

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Antonio Pappano in rehearsal for Live from Covent Garden, 13 June 2020 ©2020 ROH. Photograph by Lara Cappelli

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