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Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty
Mark Pullinger, 27th July
The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular appeal. 
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Spellbinding fairytales from Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO
Pamela Nash, 3rd December
Prokofiev's Cinderella shall go to the ball: under Vasily Petrenko's scrupulously magic wand this ballet masterpiece dazzled in a fairy-tale programme of original stage works.
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