Swan Lake - Swan Lake

Japanese: 白鳥の湖 - はくちょうのみずうみ

Ballet music composed by Tchaikovsky. Lebedinoe ozero. Based on a medieval German legend, with a libretto by VP Begichev and V. Goertzel (the outline is said to have been created by Tchaikovsky himself), choreography by Wenzher Reisinger (1828-1892), it premiered in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. However, it was not well received at the time, and after the composer's death, it was revived in 1895 at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg with choreography by Petipa and LI Ivanov, and was a great success. Petipa significantly revised the libretto, and the leading roles of the White Swan (Odette) and the Black Swan (Odile) were danced by the famous Italian ballerina Pierina Legnani (1863-1923). There is also a famous episode in which Legnani astonished the audience with 32 fouettes in the third act as Odile. There have been various subsequent productions of this piece, but the most notable is the 1953 production by VP Bourmeister (1904-1971), which faithfully revived Tchaikovsky's original score. In Japan, it was performed for a long time in 1946, shortly after the end of the war, by the Tokyo Ballet (a different organization from the current ballet company of the same name) led by Masahide Komaki, and this built a major foundation for the development of the Japanese ballet world. Excerpts from the piece are also performed as an orchestral suite.
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Japanese:

チャイコフスキー作曲のバレエ音楽。《Lebedinoe ozero》。中世ドイツの伝説に基づき，V.P.ベギチェフとV.ゲルツェルの台本（粗筋の創案はチャイコフスキー自身によるといわれる），ベンツェル・ライジンガー〔1828-1892〕の振付で，1877年モスクワのボリショイ劇場において初演。しかしこのときはあまり評判にならず，作曲者の死後1895年プティパとL.I.イワーノフの振付によりペテルブルグのマリインスキー劇場で復活上演され，大成功を収めた。プティパは大幅に台本を書き改め，主役の白鳥（オデット）と黒鳥（オディール）はイタリア出身の名バレリーナ，ピエリーナ・レニャーニ〔1863-1923〕が一人二役で踊った。レニャーニがオディール役の第３幕で32回のフェッテを見せ，観客を驚かせたエピソードも有名。後世さまざまな演出がされたが，チャイコフスキーの原曲に忠実に復活上演した1953年のV.P.ブルメイステル〔1904-1971〕の演出が際立つ。日本では終戦後まもない1946年小牧正英を中心とする東京バレエ団（現在の同名バレエ団とは別組織）によってロングラン上演され，日本バレエ界発展への大きな基礎を築いた。抜粋曲が管弦楽組曲としても演奏されている。
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