Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker

by Roland John Wiley

Book Overview

Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia. A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster, and Moscow of the 1860's leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193153149
• ISBN13: 9780193153141
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.