Sleeping Beauty
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LA BELLA DORMENT
Travel with the Royal Ballet to an enchanted world of princesses and fairy godmothers to Marius Petipa's historic production with Tchaikovsky.
This production of Sleeping Beauty has delighted the public of Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of the Russian ballet that crowned Royal Ballet in its new headquarters, after World War II, as a great company worldwide. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original staging was rescued, returning to the magnificent designs of Oliver Messel and dazzling costumes.
The great score of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the original choreography of Marius Petipa combine perfectly with the variations created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell, and Christopher Wheeldon.A ballet that will enchant everyone who sees it.
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