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Encore Screening
Encore Screening from The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
The Sleeping BeautyFriday 7th February | 7:15pm
Encore Screening from The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
The Sleeping Beauty
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break.
On her 16th birthday, Aurora discovers the spindle and pricks her finger. She falls into an enchanted sleep, and the whole palace sleeps with her. One hundred years later, Prince Florimund discovers the palace, hidden deep within a great, dark forest. He wakes Aurora with a kiss.
| Choreography | Marius Petipa |
| Additional choreography | Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon |
| Production | Monica Mason and Christopher Newton after Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev |
| Music | Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky |
| Original designs | Oliver Messel |
| Additional designs | Peter Farmer |
| Lighting designer | Mark Jonathan |
| Performers | |
|---|---|
| Conductor | Simon Hewett |
| Princess Aurora | Lauren Cuthbertson |
| Prince Florimund | Federico Bonelli |
| Concert Master | Sergey Levitin |
| Orchestra | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House |
| Performed by | The Royal Ballet |
TICKET PRICING
Standard:£14.50
Student:£12.50
Over 60s:£12.50
