SLEEPING BEAUTY Ballet from the Deutsche Opera Berlin
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The Sleeping Beauty is a Ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any genre. The original scenario was by Ivan Vsevolozhsky after Perrault's La belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Forest; the first choreographer was Marius Petipa. The premiere took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on January 15, 1890, and from that year forward The Sleeping Beauty has remained one of the most famous of all ballets.
King Florestan and his Queen are holding a celebration for the christening of their baby, Princess Aurora. Amongst their guests are her fairy godmothers who each bestow a magical gift on the child: beauty, temperament, purity, joy, wit and generosity.
Before the Lilac Fairy can present the final gift another fairy is seen approaching, Carabosse, who is in a rage because the Master of Ceremonies forgot to invite her to the ceremony. As revenge for being overlooked she pronounces that Aurora will one day prick her finger and die. The Lilac Fairy, unable to completely overturn the curse confounds it instead by promising that Aurora will not die but rather fall into a deep sleep from which she will be awakened by a prince’s kiss.
Director: Robert Reimer (Music Director)
Cast: Solistes et Corps de Ballet du Staatsballett Berlin, Orchestra of Deutsche Opera Berlin, Le Roi Florestan (Michael Banzhaf), La Reine (Beatrice Knop), La Principessa Aurora (Iana Salenko), Le Prince Desire (Marian Walter), Carabosse (Rishat Yulbarisov)
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