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La Belle: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo's response to a classical Beauty is magical

Olga Smirnova as La Belle in Jean-Christophe Maillot's La Belle
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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo as Les Pétulants in Jean-Christophe Maillot's La Belle
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Olga Smirnova as La Belle, Jaat Benoot as Carabosse with Les Prétendants in La Belle
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Olga Smirnova as La Belle and Alexis Oliveira as the Prince in Jean-Christophe Maillot's La Belle
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Jaat Benoot as La Reine Mère/Carabosse in Jean-Christophe Maillot's La Belle
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“La Belle, quite rightly, needs to sleep for one hundred years to recover from her ghastly experience”
Reviewed at Grimaldi Forum: Salle des Princes, Monaco on 28 April 2023
La Belle (Marius Petipa, Jean-Christophe Maillot)
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Set Designer
Philippe Guillotel, Costume Designer
Dominique Drillot, Lighting Designer
Olga Smirnova, Dancer
Alexis Oliveira, Dancer
Laura Tisserand, Dancer
Jaat Benoot, Dancer
Marianna Barabas, Dancer
Alvaro Prieto, Dancer
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