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| Composer | Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1890 |
| Work type | Dance |
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BudapestThe Sleeping Beauty
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Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; Sir Peter Wright; Sir Frederick Ashton; Hungarian National Ballet; Hungarian National Ballet Institute; David Coleman; Philip Prowse; Peter Teigen
LondonSleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Sir Kenneth MacMillan; English National Ballet; Peter Farmer; Nicholas Georgiadis; English National Ballet Philharmonic
New York CityThe Sleeping Beauty
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Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; Peter Martins; New York City Ballet; David Mitchell; Patricia Zipprodt; Mark Stanley; New York City Ballet Orchestra
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Mejia debuts in a sumptuous Sleeping Beauty at New York City Ballet
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Roman Mejia and a raft of soloist debuts galvanized Peter Martins' Sleeping Beauty. An elegant production with some incidental messiness and the structural liability of a princess' dependence on a kiss.
Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala is pure magic
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Rudolf Nureyev’s production of The Sleeping Beauty is still a magnificent showcase for La Scala after nearly 60 years.
ENB’s The Sleeping Beauty: disappointing cuts skew the story
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English National Ballet's revival of the Tchaikovsky classic The Sleeping Beauty, disappoints at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.
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Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty
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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.