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Great Ballet Rip-offs: Swan Lake with Fewer Swans

June 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Funny, we were just considering buying tickets to an upcoming performance of Swan Lake--it's an attempt to be cultured--but then we read about a Romanian version that's being investigated by the Consumer Protection Office.

In case, like us, you didn't know, there should be 24 swans on stage in the famous Tchaikovsky show. But recently at the Romanian National Opera House in Bucharest there were just 16, and one member of the audience made an official complaint.

As far as our rusty Romanian can translate, the Swan Lake show is still running, under the less romantic sounding Romanian translation of Lacul Lebedelor. If you go, you'll have to be prepared to make do with fewer swans than Tchaikovsky prescribed.

Related Stories:
· Swan Lake's Swan Shortage [Ananova]
· Romanian National Opera House [Official Site]
· Romania Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: rayparnova]

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wrong information

'Swan Lake' at the Bucharest National Opera House has 24 swans as it should have. Go watch it, it's really worth it!!

Here's a link from the official site, you can count the swans in 2 of the photos ;)

http://my.operanb.ro/content/view/199/46/lang,ro/

http://my.operanb.ro/images/stories/lacul_lebedelor/09-actII.jpg

http://my.operanb.ro/images/stories/lacul_lebedelor/10-actII.jpg

allegro on September 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM #Permalink

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