{"id":6646,"date":"2023-03-28T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdammagazine.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2024-04-09T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:30:10","slug":"swan-lake-national-ballet","status":"archived","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/zwanenmeer-nationaal-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"World-famous Swan Lake at the National Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This moving romantic fairy tale caused shivers over 100 years ago. Like Tchaikovsky's famous ballet music of the same name, Van Dantzig's Swan Lake still manages to touch a sensitive chord with new generations of spectators. The first and so far only Dutch production of the 'ballet of ballets' was not only labeled by virtually all newspapers as a milestone in Dutch dance history, but also - according to the critics - far preferable to many foreign interpretations of Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6653\" title=\"Swan Lake_nationalballet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Zwanenmeer_nationaleballet.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Lake_nationalballet\" width=\"870\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Zwanenmeer_nationaleballet.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Zwanenmeer_nationaleballet-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Zwanenmeer_nationaleballet-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tchaikovsky<\/strong><br \/>\nVan Dantzig drew much of his inspiration for Swan Lake (1988) from Tchaikovsky's music as well as his letters and diaries. The choreographer interpreted the basic premise of the ballet - the boy who is supposed to acquire a bride and fails - as a direct reflection of the life of the composer, who, it is now generally assumed, was homosexual.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dit ontroerende romantische sprookje veroorzaakte ruim 100 jaar geleden al rillingen. Het Zwanenmeervan Van Dantzig weet net als Tsjaikovski\u2019s beroemde gelijknamige balletmuziek nog steeds een gevoelige snaar bij nieuwe generaties toeschouwers te raken. De eerste en tot nu toe enige Nederlandse productie van het \u2018ballet der balletten\u2019 werd door vrijwel alle kranten niet alleen als &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/zwanenmeer-nationaal-ballet\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-archived","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[6647],"fotograaf":"Alique","editor":"","video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-67MyJG8wZM","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Ballet der balletten nu te zien tot 18 april ","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"4.9519361","cord_B":"52.2976436","introductie_tekst":"Het Zwanenmeer wordt vaak het \u2018ballet der balletten\u2019 genoemd, waarbij de versie van Rudi van Dantzig uitblinkt in emotionele zeggingskracht. Op de prachtige muziek van Tsjaikosvski is dit Zwanenmeer een ballet dat je toch minstens eenmaal in je leven gezien moet hebben.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Het Nationale Opera Ballet","adres":"Amstel 3","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.operaballet.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68103,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/68103"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}