Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

Maria Björnson’s designs horrified the ballet conservatives, but visually this is the best Beauty ever. Petipa’s choreography survives mostly intact with Zoltán Solymosi’s handsome Prince and Viviana Durante’s spellbinding Aurora. David Nice

 

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Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:26 pm

COMPOSERS: Tchaikovsky
LABELS: Opus Arte
WORKS: The Sleeping Beauty
PERFORMER: Durante, Solymosi, Dowell, Hussein; Royal Ballet/Barry Wordsworth; chor. Marius Petipa (London, 1994)
CATALOGUE NO: OA R3107 D

Maria Björnson’s designs horrified the ballet conservatives, but visually this is the best Beauty ever. Petipa’s choreography survives mostly intact with Zoltán Solymosi’s handsome Prince and Viviana Durante’s spellbinding Aurora. David Nice

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