The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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"The Sleeping Beauty" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a landmark 19th-century classical ballet, renowned for its lush orchestral score and fairy-tale choreography that has become a cornerstone of the traditional ballet repertoire.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
ballet
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classical ballet → |
| balletType | grand ballet → |
| basedOn | La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault → |
| choreographer | Marius Petipa → |
| commissionedBy | Ivan Vsevolozhsky → |
| commissionedFor | Imperial Theatres of Saint Petersburg → |
| composer | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky → |
| compositionPeriod | 1888–1889 → |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia → |
| criticalReputation | one of the greatest classical ballets → |
| duration | approximately 3 hours with intervals → |
| firstAuroraDancer | Carlotta Brianza → |
| firstLilacFairyDancer | Marie Petipa → |
| genre |
fairy-tale ballet
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romantic ballet → |
| hasAdaptation |
orchestral suites arranged from the ballet score
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piano transcriptions of themes → |
| influenced | 20th-century classical ballet repertoire → |
| key | various keys → |
| language | none (wordless ballet) → |
| librettist |
Ivan Vsevolozhsky
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Marius Petipa → |
| movementType | dances and character pieces → |
| musicStyle | late Romantic → |
| notableCharacter |
Carabosse
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Lilac Fairy → Prince Désiré → Sleeping Beauty →
surface form: "Princess Aurora"
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| notableNumber |
Garland Waltz
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Grand pas de deux (Aurora and Désiré) → Panorama → Rose Adagio → |
| notableProduction |
Bolshoi Ballet productions
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Mariinsky Ballet →
surface form: "Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet productions"
Royal Ballet production at Covent Garden → |
| opusNumber | Op. 66 → |
| orchestration | full symphony orchestra → |
| originalBalletMaster | Marius Petipa → |
| originalCity |
St. Petersburg
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surface form: "Saint Petersburg"
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| originalTheatre | Mariinsky Theatre → |
| partOf | classical ballet canon → |
| premiereCalendar |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
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surface form: "Gregorian"
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| premiereCompany |
Imperial Russian Ballet
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surface form: "Imperial Ballet"
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| premiereDate | 1890-01-15 → |
| setting | a mythical kingdom in a fairy-tale France-like realm → |
| structure | prologue and three acts → |
| theme |
awakening and rebirth
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power of love → triumph of good over evil → |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late medieval to baroque fantasy period → |
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this entity surface form: "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet"