Watch Swan Lake - Rudolf Nureyev - Agnès Letestu, José Martinez, Opéra National de Paris

"For me, Swan Lake is one long daydream seen through the eyes of prince Siegfried. Reared on romantic reading, his desire for infinity has been fired and he refuses the reality of the power and the forced marriage. An idealized love is born in his mind along with the prohibition that it represents. And so when the dream fades away, the sanity of the prince does not know how to survive." R Nureyev