Varna International Ballet: Swan Lake – Hull New Theatre
Whenever the ballet is in town, vacant seats are usually few and far between at Hull New Theatre, and so it was on Monday night when Varna International Ballet brought its production of Swan Lake to delight theatregoers.
This Bulgarian company will also perform The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty during their stay in the city.
As the curtain rose, we were treated to a video backdrop depicting the turning pages of a huge photo album, showing the life of Odette, offspring of a good fairy - a swan - and a noble knight.
Odette’s parents die by an evil sorcerer’s spell, so she flees to a mountain lake to join other fairy swans.
Alone on the stage sits Prince Siegfried (Vittorio Scolè), engrossed in a book of Odette’s story.
The Prince is about to come of age and his mother, the So...