Get your tickets now! The Royal Moscow Ballet is coming to Budapest this December to give a special one-off performance of ‘Swan Lake’ at the Erkel Theatre. Co-choreographed by company founder and artistic director Anatoly Emelianov, the Tchaikovsky classic from 1877 will be presented in all its finery for this event on December 3. Formed in 1997, the RMB has since given 1,000 shows around the world, from Austria to Zambia, touring with evergreen favourites such as ‘Swan Lake’ ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Cinderella’.

Premiered by the Bolshoi in 1877, ‘Swan Lake’ tells the story of Princess Odette, turned into a swan by a wicked wizard. Her near rescue by Prince Siegfried – played by Nijinsky in the classic 1911 version in London before his house arrest in Budapest – provides the ballet with its tragic ending.

Based on the classic choreography of Lev Ivanov and Marius Pepita from the 1890s, ‘Swan Lake’ has been given a slightly modern touch by Anatoly Emelianov.

His Royal Moscow Ballet then takes ‘Swan Lake’ to Prague and Ostrava before the troupe’s renditions of ‘The Nutcracker’ in the same cities.

The Royal Moscow Ballet, Erkel Theatre, District VIII. II. János Pál pápa tér 30 Tickets and information