The author's edition of the legendary ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky has left the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre for three years. The audience will again be able to see this innovative performance in the new 45th creative season on September 30, October 1 and 2.

The premiere took place on October 5, 2014, at the 3rd International Forum Ballet XXI Century. The choreographer of the performance is Artistic Director of the theatre, Honoured Artist of Russia Sergei Bobrov. He based the show on the first author's version of Tchaikovsky's score and the Moscow premiere of the ballet staged by Julius Wentsel Reisinger in 1877. He applied to the original Swan Lake in order to reproduce the composer's logic in the initial version of the work.

"Initially, in Tchaikovsky's work, Odette is a fairy, not an enchanted girl, as in the later version of Petipa. The same fairy as Sylphide, Giselle, Ondine - she is on a par with them. It was this theme that the composer was passionate about, he was madly in love with Giselle, chivalric novels. And his libretto is based on a tale by Johann Karl August Musäus. This storyteller and playwright wrote the story of a knight who comes to the lake to meet the fairy, the queen of swans. Her desire to cast her lot with an earthly person leads to tragedy. The essence of romantic ballet is that these two different elements cannot be combined. Petipa admits the happiness of the prince and Odette, if it wasn't for the young man's enamourment - momentary, purely human - of the bright, catchy Odile. For Petipa, the guise of a swan symbolizes the captivity, in which an enchanted girl is imprisoned; for Tchaikovsky, the swan personifies freedom (apparently, this is why almost all the swan dances were written by the composer). We returned the order of numbers and Tchaikovsky's orchestration to the performance,” Sergei Bobrov explained.

Luxurious costumes were sewn for the performance - 150 ones for women and 80 ones for men. Stage outfits harmoniously combined vintage and ultra-modern styles with historical motifs. A painting by stage designer Karl Valts was recreated for the production: he painted it for the ballet premiere of 1877. The canvas, eight by seven meters in size, divides the stage into two worlds: an earthly and fabulous one. It will become the central element of the show. A huge mirror in the back of the stage will allow a spectator to see the action taking place behind the picture, in the fabulous world of the lake fairy.

The performance won not only the love of the audience, but also the recognition of experts. It won the Krasnoyarsk regional festival Theatre Spring 2015 in the categories Best Premiere of the Season in a Music Theatre, Best Choreographer (Sergei Bobrov), Best Actress in a Ballet Performance (Natalia Bobrova as Odile), and Best Actor in a Ballet Performance (Ivan Karnaukhov as Benno).