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Viktorina Kapitonova in Swan Lake / Photo by Carlos Quezada
Royal Opera House on Instagram: "🦢🎵 On this day in 1877, Swan Lake received its premiere! This ballet is arguably the most famous, best loved and certainly one of the most frequently performed works in the classical ballet repertory. With a spellbinding score by Tchaikovsky, the first production was choreographed by V. Reisinger but Petipa and Ivanov's production later became the definitive version with their vividly contrasting worlds of opulent courts and moonlit lakesides. Drawn from Germ