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Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work "Swan Lake" (Schwanensee / Le Lac des cygnes) stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. No ballet lover can afford to be without this Video, which finds two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

1964 · 1h 47m

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

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Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work "Swan Lake" (Schwanensee / Le Lac des cygnes) stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. No ballet lover can afford to be without this Video, which finds two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

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Studio
Marquee TV
Released
1964
Run Time
1 hr 47 min
Regions of Origin
Germany, Austria, United States
© 1966 Unitel under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.