Odette/Odile for a discerning audience — kids

You live or die in front of an audience like this — London schoolkids watching a lecture demonstration of “Swan Lake.” Because unlike adults kids don’t fake being interested.

• Ursula Hageli and Richard Slaughter coached in Swan Lake by Svetlana Beriosova with the Michael Basset at the piano at a lecture-demonstration/performance under the auspices of the Royal Opera House at a school in North London
• Odette, the white swan
• Odile, the black swan (Hageli)

_{Thank you, Richard Slaughter, for sharing your marvelous trove of photos.}

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