Selection of Famous Ballet and Opera Classics

Author: Gao Cairong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The world's ballet has three major schools: Italian, French, and Russian. The composer who truly brought ballet music to its peak is Tchaikovsky. The music of his three ballet masterpieces—Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, especially Swan Lake—put an end to the blind worship of foreign music and the rigid imitation of foreign styles in Russian music at the time. Ultimately, it shifted the center of world ballet art from Paris to St. Petersburg. His music brought rich imagery, dramatic momentum, and symphonic development to ballet. His works are not only the epitomes of ballet, but also immortal masterpieces on the world music stage.