Tchaikovsky Ballet

Tchaikovsky’s three famous ballets Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed three ballets in the 1800’s that are still being performed and are known all over the world today. His ballets have inspired many plays and movies reenacting them. The three ballets by Tchaikovsky that I am going to cover in this paper are Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty. Swan Lake is the first ballet I would like to talk about: Swan lake was first performed in 1875 and was Tchaikovsky’s first ballet. He received a commission by Vladimir Begichev, the intendant of Moscow’s Russian Imperial Theatres. Unfortunately, the ballet's premiere was not a success, due to poor staging and choreography. The ballet is composed for a large orchestra of about 35 …show more content…
Two star-crossed lovers meet and it ends in tragedy because they think their only solution is death. Tchaikovsky’ second famous ballet is The Sleeping Beauty. He composed for The Sleeping Beauty in 1888 when the director of the Imperial Theater in Moscow told Tchaikovsky he was going to write a new ballet plot and asked Tchaikovsky to write the music for it. The story was based on the Grimm Brothers’ version of the 18th-century story of The Sleeping Beauty. Tchaikovsky’s second ballet is filled with a lot of symphonic melodies, the premier of the ballet was in 1890 and unlike his first ballet Swan Lake, The Sleeping beauty was a success. The Sleeping Beauty starts with the Princess Aurora’s christening, inviting everyone except for the evil fairy Carabosse. The evil crashes the party anyway and puts a curse on Aurora. The curse foretold that when the princess turned 16 she would prick her finger, and so she does. A century later Prince Florimund stumbles on the old castle where Aurora sleeps. He kisses her and breaks the spell, of course. They get married and live happily ever after. In contrast to Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty ends on a happy note with a wedding and a huge