Details

Sleeping Beauty is the much-loved tale of a cursed princess doomed to sleep for one hundred years. However, the enchantment is finally broken with an handsome prince awakens when with a kiss. The Kirov's five week season at the Royal Opera House opens with The Sleeping Beauty, Petipa's classical ballet which was first performed at the Kirov's Mariinsky Theatre in 1890. The forgotten fairy Carabosse gives Princess Aurora the curse of death at her christening but the Lilac Fairy is able to transform to spell into a hundred years of sleep. Running time 3 hours 35 mins.

Cast/Performers

Diana Vishneva, Igor Zelensky, Altynai Asylmuratova, Svetlana Zakharova, Irma Nioradze

Creatives/Company

Music: Tchaikovsky
Company: Kirov Opera and Ballet
Choreographer(s): Petipa, Sergei Vikharev (choreographic reconstruction based on the archive notes of [Nikolai Sergeev])
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Lyrics(s): Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa
Design(s): Heinrich Levogt, Mikhail Bocharov, I Andrew, Konstantin Ivanov, M Shishkov
Costume(s): Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Elena Zaitseva