Swan Lake appears in Lanzhou

The St Petersburg Ballet Dance Theatre staged the world-famous ballet Swan Lake in China's northwest city of Lanzhou with the Gansu Musical Theatre Orchestra on Dec 9.

The orchestra will accompany the ballet tour to six Chinese cities, making it the first orchestra in Northwest China to cooperate with an international performance group.

Before the ballet, the conductor and some musicians from the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre Orchestra rehearsed with their Chinese counterparts for three days.