This inner turmoil isĪlso exacerbated by Wolfgang, his tutor, and Rothbart, the cruel magician, each (homosexuality?) represented by Odile, the black swan. Though he is irremediably attracted to a darker more shameful desire Swan, symbolises the perfect woman, the one to which Siegfried must go to, even In Leonardo da Vinci a Memory of His Childhood, published in 1943, Sigmund Freud writes: “ To be a bird is only a disguise for another wish in a dream, the desire to fly signifies nothing other than the inner desire to be capable of sexual activities”. A princess is captured by a bird of prey and takes to the skies with it…a scene that in reality heralds the end of the ballet. In the prologue, the dozing prince has a “strange and premonitory” dream just as the synopsis for the ballet indicates. The choreographer opted to place a male character, Prince Siegfried, at the heart of the narrative to portray the full gamut of his emotions on stage. Several versions of Swan Lake exist, but the one by Rudolf Nureyev - created for the Paris Opera Ballet in December 1984- undoubtedly remains the most Freudian.
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