Performance

Venue	Royal Opera House
	Also: Linbury Studio, Ballet Studio, Clore Studio,Floral Hall
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	7th November 2019
To	16th January 2020
When	19:30. Mats 13:30, 14:00. Sat 19:00. Check with Box Office
Royal Opera House (V377)
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Date of change: 15 May 19 - T01063217784

The Sleeping Beauty

Work:: The Sleeping Beauty (S0219263229)

Production:: (T01063217784)

The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn't invited to Princess Aurora's christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse's curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince's kiss will break. On her 16th birthday, Aurora discovers the spindle and pricks her finger. She falls into an enchanted sleep, and the whole palace sleeps with her. One hundred years later, Prince Florimund discovers the palace, hidden deep within a great, dark forest. He wakes Aurora with a kiss.

Producer	Royal Ballet
Choreographer	Marius Petipa
Choreographer	Frederick Ashton (additional choreography)
Choreographer	Anthony Dowell (additional choreography)
Choreographer	Christopher Wheeldon (additional choreography)
Choreographer	Monica Mason (this production)
Choreographer	Christopher Newton (this production after Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev)
Music	Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Design	Oliver Messel
Design	Peter Farmer (additional designs)
Lighting	Mark Jonathan

Listing:: L571252298

Production details

The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn't invited to Princess Aurora's christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse's curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince's kiss will break. On her 16th birthday, Aurora discovers the spindle and pricks her finger. She falls into an enchanted sleep, and the whole palace sleeps with her. One hundred years later, Prince Florimund discovers the palace, hidden deep within a great, dark forest. He wakes Aurora with a kiss.

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