Swan Lake Premieres: Tchaikovsky's Masterpiece Flops at First
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake stumbled through a disastrous première at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, where choreography and music clashed so badly that audiences walked out confused. This failure forced Tchaikovsky to revise the score and eventually led to the 1895 Petipa-Ivanov revival that established the ballet as a global masterpiece.
February 20, 1877
149 years ago
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bataille de Hard qui oppose les Trois Ligues et les Confédérés suisses à la Ligue de Souabe et aux forces de Maximilien Ier.
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