The Bolshoi Ballet returns to Toronto with the most revered of classical ballets, Swam Lake, a perennial dance favourite about sorcery and royalty. Based on Russian folk tales, Swan Lake, which the Bolshoi premiered in 1877, is the haunting story of Odette, a beautiful maiden turned swan by an evil sorcerer.  A tragic love story, Odette’s romance with Prince Siegfried is doomed by a curse which leaves him to wander endlessly on the empty banks of the lake of his dreams. Today, the Bolshoi Ballet remains one of the world’s most famous ballet companies, even Lady Gaga is a fan, and has performed with them!