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.
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}