The Sleeping Beauty

Feb 28, 2017

2h 18m

★ 8.0

Overview

The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden. Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful Princess Aurora in the first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived by then Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason and Christopher Newton, returning Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage.

Genres

Music

Fantasy

Production Companies

Royal Opera House

The Sleeping Beauty Trailers

Cast

Princess Aurora

Marianela Núñez

Prince Florimund

Vadim Muntagirov

King Florestan XXIV

Christopher Saunders

The Queen

Elizabeth McGorian

Cattalabutte

Alastair Marriott

Carabosse

Kristen McNally

Lilac Fairy

Claire Calvert

Her Cavalier

Ryoichi Hirano

Fairy of the Crystal Fountain

Yuhui Choe

Her Cavalier

Luca Acri

Fairy of the Enchanted Garden

Akane Takada

Her cavalier

Valeri Hristov

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