The sleeping beauty
By: Tchaikovsky
Contributors: Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910; Wright, Peter, 1926-; Sylve, Sofiane, dancer; Lambiotte, Gäel, dancer; Fontaine, Sarah, dancer; Cavallotti, Enrichetta, dancer; Florio, Ermanno, conductor; Nationale Ballet (Netherlands); Holland Symfonia; Opus Arte (Firm)
Publisher: Kultur; Opus Arte
Published: 2004
Place of publication: West Long Branch, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780769709048
Subjects: Ballets; Film adaptations
Work titles: Spi︠a︡shchai︠a︡ krasavit︠s︡a
Description: A ballet originally choreographed in 1890. Good fairies bestow gifts on the infant princess Aurora, but the uninvited evil fairy, Carabosse, arrives and puts a curse on the child - one day she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. The Lilac Fairy then moderates this to a promise that she will merely fall into a deep sleep for 100 years and be awakened by a prince's kiss. At the princess's 16th birthday celebration, a disguised Carabosse gives her a bouquet with a spindle hidden, and Aurora pricks her finger. The Lilac Fairy puts the whole kingdom to sleep along with Aurora. One hundred years later, Prince Florimund falls in love with the Lilac Fairy's image of Aurora, and battles Carabosse's creatures and other obstacles to reach the princess and break the spell. Finally, the entire court assembles for the wedding celebration.
Notes: Ballet in three acts.

Title from container.

Program notes in English in container.

Extra features: cast gallery ; We all love magic, featurette about fairy tales; The story is in their hands, Sir Peter Wright describing the use of mime; A crystal-cut diamond, Sir Peter Wright on rehearsing The Sleeping Beauty; I got stuck, a portrait of Sofiane Sylve.

Choreography, Marius Petipa and Sir Peter Wright ; stage & costume designer, Philip Prowse ; producer and stage director, Peter Wright ; lighting designer, Jan Hofstra ; DVD director, Jellie Dekker.

Sofiane Sylve (Princess Aurora) ; Gaël Lambiotte (Prince Florimund) ; Sarah Fontaine (The Lilac Fairy) ; Enrichetta Cavallotti (Carabosse) ; additional soloists ; Het Nationale Ballet ; Holland Symfonia, conductor, Ermanno Florio.

Recorded at Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam in 2003.

DVD; all regions; LPCM/DTS; 16/9 anamorphic widescreen.

Intertitles and special features in English; special features have optional subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish.