2/17/2023 0 Comments Swan lake boston opera houseNow the Kirov has missed a fine opportunity. Petersburg, toured North America for the first time since 1964, it brought along a splendid production of "Swan Lake." That tour, however, bypassed New York City, and when the Russian company did appear at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1989, this surprisingly eloquent and Soviet-style "Swan Lake" by Konstantin Sergeyev was not among the ballets presented. In 1986 when the Kirov Ballet from Leningrad, now St. Artistic freedom in post-Soviet Russia now obviously includes freedom to mangle the 19th-century ballet classics, Western style.
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