With its instantly recognizable music and a timeless story of good versus evil, Swan Lake is the greatest of romantic ballets, featuring an evocative score from the prolific composer Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake is a Russian classic, replete with haunting music and exquisite dance. This ballet has captured the imagination of many generations. Its fairy-tale mystery and romance continue to fascinate audiences worldwide.

 

 

Swan Lake is a tale of two young women, Odette and Odile, who resemble each other so closely one can easily be mistaken for the other. It is the compelling legend of a tragic romance in which a princess, Odette, is turned into a swan by an evil curse.

 

 

Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful young woman he is instantly captivated − will his love prove strong enough to break the evil spell that she is under? The twinned roles of the pure White Swan and the scheming, duplicitous Black Swan tests the full range of a ballerina’s powers, particularly in the two great pas de deux.

 

 

In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow Academic Choreographic School in the class of Professor Alexander Prokofiev. As a student, he danced the main roles in the performances of the Moscow Academic Choreographic School: Franz in "Coppelia" and Colin in "La Fille mal gardé". In the same year he was admitted to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, where his teachers were Vasily Vorokhobko, Nikolai Simachev and Mikhail Lavrovsky.

 

In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Choreography with a degree in choreography and teaching; in 2008 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts with a degree in choreography.  Besides working in the Bolshoi Theater, in 1993-1998 he was a guest soloist at the Teatro Colón in Argentina.

 

From 2008 to 2011, Yuri Viktorovich was the head of the ballet troupe and the choreographer of the Rostov State Musical Theatre, where he was the first to perform the role of Claudius in Alexei Fadeechev's ballet “Hamlet” (2008) and he staged the scene of “Polovtsian Dances” in the opera “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin (2010). In 2011, he finished his stage career and became a choreographer-repetiteur at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 2017 he became the artistic director for ballet of M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre; in 2022 he was also appointed as the chief choreographer of the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre.