a ballet by Tchaikovsky, about a princess, Odette, who has been turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse; Prince Siegfried falls in love with her and tries to save her, but he is outwitted by the magician, and the prince and princess kill themselves to escape the curse
Examples of 'Swan Lake' in a sentence
Swan Lake
Had her daughter fallen in love with the prince from Swan Lake ?
Gaskin, Catherine THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN (2002)
Grace had a ludicrous vision of the complete cast of Swan Lake, in costume, queueing for the bathroom every morning.
Melville, Anne THE HARDIE INHERITANCE (2002)
My stomach felt like the Royal Ballet was inside doing Swan Lake.