What is your favorite Ballet show.?

If I had to choose and it's really hard.....Giselle in classical ballet and Concerto Barocco in Neoclassical ballet.

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I guess Swan Lake is my favorite. There are others I like very well too.

So many!! I would have to say either Don Quixote or Romeo and Juliet!

I love Coppelia, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake

They're just called ballets. Not ballet shows.

I love Swan Lake, Coppelia and La Fille Mal Gardee.

I love the Nutcracker, and no, I'm not just one of these people who sees it only because it is a Christmas tradition.

Tchaikovsky's score is a beautiful piece, and it's misleading to say Tchaikovsky hated it- if you read Tchaikovsky's letters, it's obvious as he got older he made disparaging comments about many things he wrote, and also changed his mind as the work matured.

Myth no 2 about the Nutcracker: Tchaikovsky was at a loss to compose, so he borrowed extensively- he was instructed to use borrowed music, particularly French nursery rhymes. Marius Petipa, a Frenchman who was the choreographer (with Lev Ivanov), wanted to produce a children's ballet.

The Nutcracker was highly modified over the generations, especially when extracts were performed by dancers such as Anna Pavlova, on tour. These were made into miniature ballets, and added to the choreography. Nureyev and Fonteyn adopted a pas de deux after Alicia Markova's of the 50s.

Giselle is of course a favorite- Cyril Beaumont's book on this ballet is a real masterpiece! If you like correcting people (ha ha), people so often say Giselle killed herself, but clearly this is not true- she stabbed herself in the first act, but this only wounded her- she died of a broken heart (as Gautier stated himself).

There are so many different beautiful ballets, sometimes it depends on the performer.

PS: It's interesting to read the accounts of early performances of the Nutcracker, such as Alexandre Benois; and compare it and see how it evolved over the generations.

romeo & juliet

I like royal ballet and chinese natonal ballet

Swan lake for now.I like everything really.