Swan Lake was first brought to the stage of the Teatro dell’Opera in 1937 in the version by Boris Romanov, with Attilia Radice and Anatolij Obuchov. Represented numerous times, the successful choreography of the original by Marius Petipa-Lev Ivanov (Saint Petersburg, 1895) was performed by London’s Festival Ballet in 1960 and eight years prior to this, the New York City Ballet had performed the choreography by George Balanchine. The Terme di Caracalla hosted the ballet, the version by Jurij Grigorovic - already seen by the Roman public in a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet Corps in 1970 - for the first time in 1980 with Diana Ferrara and Paolo Bortoluzzi as the leads. The same summer venue hosted Rudolf Nureyev in the role of Prince Siegfried in 1984. In the most recent edition in 2009 the leads alternated between international stars Oksana Kucheruk, Ekaterina Borchenko, the Cuban sisters Lorna e Lorena Fejóo and Svetlana Zakharova.

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