Like many composers, Tchaikovsky recycled his own music, and the music in the opera duet from “Undina” is startlingly close to Swan Lake’s Act II pas de deux. Interestingly, both stories are about ethereal creatures who end up under water. It just shows how the two mediums of opera and ballet can cross over intriguingly. [...]


eisenstadt,
gered mankowitz, photog, 1967





“the red danube” (1949)


