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| Composer | Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1890 |
| Work type | Dance |
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AntwerpThe Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marcos Morau; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Max Glaenzel; Silvia Delagneau; Mathieu Cabanes; Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
GhentThe Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marcos Morau; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Max Glaenzel; Silvia Delagneau; Mathieu Cabanes; Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
RigaThe Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; Aivars Leimanis; Latvian National Opera; Farhads Stade; Latvian National Opera Orchestra
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BALLET The New Classic is a bold new approach to classical ballet
Ballet The New Classic, brought a fresh look to the standard ballet gala, collaborating with fashion designers and musicians, creating new choreography and bringing a new audience from the fashion world.
English National Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty: mixed results at the RAH
Video projections in the Royal Albert Hall enhance MacMillan’s Sleeping Beauty for English National Ballet but the lack of real set and wings makes the stage seem bare and bleak.
Mejia debuts in a sumptuous Sleeping Beauty at New York City Ballet
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.
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Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty
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.