La Belle au bois dormant

Release date
Location
Opéra Bastille
Duration
2:46
Interval
1
Ballet
Rudolf Nureyev
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Musical direction
Fayçal Karoui

Étoiles, Premiers danseurs and Corps de ballet

La Belle au bois dormant © Christian Leiber/ONP
Photo credit
© Christian Leiber/ONP

Main informations

The “Ballet of ballets,” Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. Virtuosity together with sumptuous sets and costumes recreate the splendour of one of the most brilliant masterpieces in the classical repertoire.

The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf Nureyev described it, Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. First performed in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the work combined the talents of choreographer Marius Petipa and composer Tchaikovsky. Inspired by Charles Perrault's tale, they imagined a “fairy-tale ballet” in which dream and reality overlap and where fairies and godmothers, and the forces of Good and Evil fight over the fate of two young people. It was not until 1989 that Rudolf Nureyev restaged the work based on the original choreography for the Paris Opera Ballet. Readopting the original order and structure of the piece, passed on by generations of dancers, he devised a choreography of dazzling academic virtuosity, alternating between lavish ensembles and pas de deux. The sumptuous sets and costumes by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino recreate the splendour of one of the most outstandingly accomplished masterpieces in the classical repertoire.

Sleeping beauty
Artistic team

Ballet in a prologue and three acts
Based on the tale by Charles Perrault
Music / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography and staging / Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa (Opéra national de Paris, 1989)
Sets / Ezio Frigerio
Costumes / Franca Squarciapino
Lighting / Vinicio Cheli
Paris Opera Orchestra
Conductor / Fayçal Karoui

Presented by Brigitte Lefèvre, Director of Dance - Paris Opera
Film Director / François Roussillon

Cast

Étoiles, Premiers danseurs and Corps de ballet

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