Moscow Ballet’s La Classique is back on tour in Australia, this time presenting the world famous Swan Lake on a 29-show tour which stops at the Albury Entertainment Centre on April 22.
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The tour follows their 2015 sell-out performances of Sleeping Beauty.
Organisers say the two act performance, with lavish costumes, outstanding dancing and magnificent stage sets will capture the imagination, the passion and the romance of the classical ballet fairy tale, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the 1870s.
It tells the tale of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.
Speaking through a translator, the ballet's artistic director Elik Melikov said the ballet would take the audience on an emotional journey.
“People going to the theatre will enjoy a show that will touch them … it will invoke feelings in both adults and children who are waiting for a fairy tale,” Melikov told Fairfax Media.
The La Classique company was founded by the Union of Theatre Activists of the USSR in 1990 and Melikov was invited to lead the new company as general and artistic director.
Melikov set up workshops which manufactured costumes, footwear, stage sets and decorations for illustrious clients such as the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow City Ballet, The Danish Royal Ballet and Boston Ballet Theatre before establishing Moscow Ballet La Classique.
The core of the company was composed by the dancers from the leading theatres of Moscow, St Petersburg, Perm, Saratov and other cities of Russia and the CIS countries.
Since its establishment Moscow Ballet La Classique has thrilled and entertained audiences across the world with its repertoire that includes the pearls of classical ballets such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliette and Don Quixote.