Tickets have now gone of sale for the Russian State Ballet and Opera House’s autumn production of the magical Swan Lake.

The prestigious ballet company is making a welcome return to Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7.30pm.

Last year the Russian State Ballet brought Carmen to Swindon and it was a sell-out, so the company is advising fans to snap up their tickets now.

The Russian State Ballet and Opera House has been going for 13 years and was set up to combine the Top Guns of the ballet and opera worlds under one umbrella.

Alexej Ignatow, chief executive, said: “ We aim to bring a different artist to the UK every year, which means that although you may have seen Swan Lake one year, next time the set, costumes, artists and choreography will be different. It will feel like a different show, still with the same high level of quality.’’ The tragic story of Swan Lake tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse and features music by Tchaikovsky.

The first production of the classic ballet was in 1877. It was given as a benefit performance for the ballerina Pelageya Karpakova, who performed the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre’s principal dancer, Victor Gillert, as Prince Siegfried. Pelageya is likely to have also danced the part Odile, although that is not recorded.

Ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya, who was the original dancer chosen for the role of Odette, was stopped from performing at the première because a governing official in Moscow said that she had accepted jewellery from him, and then gone off to marry another dancer, so she was replaced as Odette by Pelageya.

Tickets for the Russian State Ballet and Opera House performance of Swan Lake and the romantic Giselle, on Wednesday, October 29 at 7.30pm, are £36 and £33 from www.ballet.tickets.com or 01793 524481.

– Flicky Harrison