Mon & Tues April 23 & 24 at 7:30pm

Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet brings us the truth about “Svengali”
Glitter and Doom. Beauty and Power. Svengali’s family secrets and inner purposes are revealed in this complex balletic drama with riveting choreography - sure to leave you mesmerized.

Fans literally cannot wait to get their tickets for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Back for the 8th time to our stage, Canada’s RWB presents Svengali. The story, based on the Novel Trilby by George du Maurier, goes like this:- Yearning for public recognition, Svengali escapes the repression of his mother’s ballet studio to a decadent world reminiscent of mid-century Weimar, where he finds the beautiful and malleable young dancer, Trilby. Under Svengali’s entrancing influence, Trilby is transformed into the darling of the ballet world, but her star ultimately rises beyond Svengali’s powerful psychic grasp.

"Godden uses music brilliantly and it is a varied playlist; from Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra (probably better known as the theme for 2001, A Space Odyssey), to a number of Rachmaninoff pieces; and from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, to the hypnotic rhythm of the 1st Movement of Philip Glass's Symphony No. 8. The way he uses the Liszt and the Glass as inducements to a kind of calliope madness, is startling. It runs counter to what we expect, and is all the more effective for that reversal. Svengali is beautiful, challenging and a visual turn-on. The ballet is, simply, a triumph, danced with explosive discipline by this talented company." Robert Enright (Professor of art criticism at Guelph University)

ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE BY ATTENDING OUR PRE- SHOW CHAT AT 6:45PM

Tickets: $52/Member or Group $48/Student $15/eyeGO $5

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