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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
SydneyThe Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; David McAllister; The Australian Ballet; Gabriela Týlešová; Jon Buswell; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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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.
ABT presents the classics with slightly uneven results
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ABT offer some outstanding performances in a classical quadruple bill but there was a lack of confidence and uniformity within the corps de ballet.
The Australian Ballet in Adelaide: a dazzling Beauty
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With Tchaikovsky’s music, glittering visual spectacle and wonderful dancers, The Australian Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty is a thrilling night at the ballet.
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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.