Sleeping beauty waltz peter ilyich tchaikovsky biography
Edvard grieg biography...
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
| The Sleeping Beauty | |
|---|---|
Alexandra Ansanelli and David Makhateli take their bows during a Royal Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty on 29 April 2008 | |
| Choreographed by | Marius Petipa |
| Composed by | Tchaikovsky |
| Libretto by | Marius Petipa Ivan Vsevolojsky |
| Based on | Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" |
| Date of premiere | 15 January 1890 |
| Place of premiere | Mariinsky Theatre St. Sleeping beauty waltz peter ilyich tchaikovsky biographyPetersburg |
| Original ballet company | Mariinksky Ballet |
| Characters | Princess Aurora Prince Désiré Lilac Fairy Carabosse King Florestan XXIV His Queen Catalabutte Good Fairies, Courtiers, etc. |
| Designs by | Ivan Vsevolozhsky |
| Setting | King Florestan's palace and a woodland glade in the 17th and 18th centuries |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Type | Classical |
The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts.
Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolozhsky wrote the story of the ballet. It wa