TRAILER »The Sleeping Beauty« // Semperoper Ballett

Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky’s fairy-tale ballet »The Sleeping Beauty« premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1890, and has been considered one of the most challenging action ballets up to now. In 2007, Aaron S. Watkin staged this famous story in the tradition of Marius Petipa’s legendary choreography. For its revival in the 2023/24 season, Marcelo Gomes stages an adaptation of this classic, by adding some nuances of his own individual aesthetic style, and drawing on the essence of the popular fairy-tale: Princess Aurora's development from a child to a young woman. This includes the royal baptism in the circle of the good fairies, interrupted by demoniac fairy Carabosse, the attenuated fulfilment of her curse in the form of a hundred-year slumber and Aurora’s final reawakening after a prince’s kiss.
Conductor: Benjamin Pope
Narrative & Choreography after Marius Petipa: Aaron S. Watkin
Adaption: Marcelo Gomes
Music: Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky
Set Design & Video: Arne Walther
Costume Design: Erik Västhed
Lighting Design: Jan Seeger
Dramaturgy: Katharina Riedeberger, Regina Genée
Info: www.semperoper...
© Semperoper Dresden / Jubal Battisti, 2024

[@felicity1877]

It looks like that the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty by Aaron S. Watkin is now edited by Marcelo Gomes in a more classic way, such like the now five fairies together, who seem also not to be identical anymore with the jewels from act 3, and I'm also happy that it's now a bluebird pas de deux, and not Florina with two bluebirds dancing around, this is as it should be...