This work's composer once compared it unfavorably to Sylvia, and it includes a movement in which one protagonist carouses with his teacher Wolfgang and friend Benno. The first act includes the "Dance with Goblets" at a court, but more famous are a pas de deux and the nationalistic dances representing women courting Prince Siegfried. Siegfried dies after accidentally pledging himself to the daughte
This work's composer once compared it unfavorably to Sylvia, and it includes a movement in which one protagonist carouses with his teacher Wolfgang and friend Benno. The first act includes the "Dance with Goblets" at a court, but more famous are a pas de deux and the nationalistic dances representing women courting Prince Siegfried. Siegfried dies after accidentally pledging himself to the daughter of the evil von Rothbart, who had put a curse on the woman he fell in love with, Odette. For 10 points, name this Tchaikovsky ballet in which a beautiful girl is turned into the titular bird.
This work's composer once compared it unfavorably to Sylvia, and it includes a movement in which one protagonist carouses with his teacher Wolfgang and friend Benno.
{Swan Lake}