Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons ...

Thursday’s opening night, with Viktorina Kapitonova as Odette/Odile and Sangmin Lee as Prince Siegfried, attested to why “Swan Lake” has become practically synonymous with ballet.

The show must go on. That’s what happened in the third act when Philadelphia Ballet opened Swan Lake, set to the classic Tchaikovsky score, on Thursday at the Academy of Music. Sterling Baca, as ...

The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess Odette.

Meanwhile, Prince Siegfried (Ben Rudisin) has problems of his own, his royal duties looming in the fast-approaching future. When he encounters Odette on a brief reprieve from the palace ...

Ballerina Sumire Ito is practicing her role in the pas de deux, a dramatic and demanding partnering piece that expresses the story of Odile, the black swan who tricks Prince Siegfried into ...

Set to the melodious, well-known score by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, it follows Prince Siegfried as he falls for a princess who’s been turned into a swan by a sorcerer. Sometimes that perfection ...