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For more than 100 years, Swan Lake has been the ballet with the largest number of performances, the largest number of versions and the largest audience of ballets in the world. The popularity of "Swan Lake" is almost to the point of "words and ballet must be swans". "Swan Lake" is one of Tchaikovsky's most famous masterpieces, and his music is like a heart-warming romantic lyric poem, which has been evaluated as "the first time that the dance work has a musical soul".
This is also one of the important reasons for its longevity.
This is Tchaikovsky's first dance piece, based on folklore, in the plot of Princess Ojeta being transformed into a white swan by a demon on the shores of Swan Lake. Prince Siegfried travels to Swan Lake and falls in love with Ojeta. On the night of the prince's selection of brides, the demon has his daughter black swan disguised as Ojeta to deceive the prince. The prince was almost deceived, and finally found out in time, fought against the demon, and killed him. The White Swan returns to her princess form and unites with the prince for a happy ending.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker raised ballet music to the level of symphonic music. In his dance plays, music is an important part of the work's content and stage movements. Tchaikovsky improved the expressiveness of the dance music, deepening the drama of the work through symphonic unfolding and portrayal of the characters. In "Swan Lake", he expresses a poetic mood with romantic lyrical brushstrokes, portrays the protagonist's beautiful and pure character and loyal love, and depicts the contradictions and conflicts of hostile forces with magnificent dramatic power. Therefore, Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is still a model work of ballet music.
The music of "Swan Lake" is like a lyrical poem with romantic overtones, and the music of each scene has done a very good job of lyricism of the scene and the promotion of dramatic contradictions, as well as the portrayal of the personality and heart of each character, with a profound symphony. These dance music, which is full of poetic and dramatic power and has a highly symphonic development principle, is the result of the author's major reform of ballet music, thus becoming an epoch-making work in the history of dance drama development. Much of this music is a masterpiece of the centuries.