| Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake | |
|---|---|
| Choreographer | Matthew Bourne |
| Music | Tchaikovsky |
| Premiere | 9 November 1995 |
| Original ballet company | New Adventures |
| Website | new-adventures |
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men.
It was the longest-running ballet in London's West End and on Broadway. First staged at Sadler's Wells theatre in London in 1995, it has been performed in the UK, Los Angeles, Europe, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Israel, China, and Singapore.[1]