So when Matthew Bourne cast Swan Lake with solely male dancers he was tapping into ... It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper swan might make as it gasps for breath – a descending ...

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky did not, after all, write Duck Pond. The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute ...