ROYAL BALLET - Sleeping Beauty

First staged in St Petersburg in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty is the pinnacle of classical
ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s music and a
glorious challenge for every dancer onstage. It is also The Royal Ballet’s signature work. To
mark the Company’s 75th birthday in 2006, Monica Mason and Christopher Newton
revitalized its landmark 1946 production, which re-established Petipa’s choreography, as
recorded by Imperial Ballet régisseur Nicholas Sergeyev, to a scenario and staging
developed by Ninette de Valois herself. With Oliver Messel’s gorgeous original designs
wonderfully re-imagined by Peter Farmer, and additional choreography by Anthony
Dowell, Christopher Wheeldon and Frederick Ashton, today’s Sleeping Beauty not only
captures the mood of the original but shows that this is very much a living work for The
Royal Ballet, growing and changing with the Company while celebrating its past.
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Music by.. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
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THURSDAY, March 8th @ 11am
SUNDAY, March 11th @ 11am
MONDAY, March 12th @ 1pm
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