
par Benjamin Goron, Robert Kilborn and Adrian Rodriguez Swan Lake, Polish National Ballet / Place des Arts, Montreal**** Conviction and savoir faire This Swan Lake changes everything while remaining the same. It unfolds at the imperial court of Russian Tsar Alexander III. Alexander’s son, the Tsarevich Nicholas, must choose between his first love, Princess Alix of Hesse, and his infatuation with the young Polish ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinska. Nicholas would of course become Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, shot and bayoneted to death in the Russian Revolution, along with his wife and five children. Vladimir Yaroshenko as the Tsarevich…