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In Egypt, Ta-Hor and Amoun meet in a temple. When Cleopatra arrives, Amoun becomes captivated by her and declares his love. Cleopatra agrees to spend a night with him on condition that he drink poison the next morning. Ta-Hor tries to stop him, but returns to find him dead.
A ballet adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, created by Mikhail Fokine in St Petersburg in 1908 with music by Alexander Glazunov.
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times. The short ballet (four minutes) follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1907. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette, heroine of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, and has inspired non-traditional interpretations as well as various adaptations.
In Egypt, Ta-Hor and Amoun meet in a temple. When Cleopatra arrives, Amoun becomes captivated by her and declares his love. Cleopatra agrees to spend a night with him on condition that he drink poison the next morning. Ta-Hor tries to stop him, but returns to find him dead.
A ballet adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, created by Mikhail Fokine in St Petersburg in 1908 with music by Alexander Glazunov.
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times. The short ballet (four minutes) follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1907. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette, heroine of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, and has inspired non-traditional interpretations as well as various adaptations.