David Hallberg’s dreaming prince in Swan Lake at La Scala
David Hallberg’s reception at La Scala was rapturous. He is making his house début in Milan as well as tackling Rudolf Nureyev’s tricky choreography for Swan Lake for the first time. Loud cries of ‘bravo’ greeted the end of his first act solo, and the applause for him, and his partner Svetlana Zakharova, was ecstatic throughout the evening, with a standing ovation at the final curtain.
Hallberg proved himself an excellent actor, imbuing Nureyev’s bewildered Prince with pathos. The melancholic Siegfried is found dreaming on his throne as the curtain rises and, in this Freudian approach to the story, he continually finds refuge in his imagination as he tries to escape the responsibilities of manhood that his mother and his tutor — who in his mind becomes Rothbart — try to thrust upon him.… [continue reading]
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