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
instanceOf ballet
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
romantic ballet
hasAdaptation orchestral suites arranged from the ballet score
piano transcriptions of themes
influenced 20th-century classical ballet repertoire
key various keys
language none (wordless ballet)
librettist Ivan Vsevolozhsky
Marius Petipa
movementType dances and character pieces
musicStyle late Romantic
notableCharacter Carabosse
Lilac Fairy
Prince Désiré
Sleeping Beauty
surface form: "Princess Aurora"
notableNumber Garland Waltz
Grand pas de deux (Aurora and Désiré)
Panorama
Rose Adagio
notableProduction Bolshoi Ballet productions
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
surface form: "Saint Petersburg"
originalTheatre Mariinsky Theatre
partOf classical ballet canon
premiereCalendar Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: "Gregorian"
premiereCompany Imperial Russian Ballet
surface form: "Imperial Ballet"
premiereDate 1890-01-15
setting a mythical kingdom in a fairy-tale France-like realm
structure prologue and three acts
theme awakening and rebirth
power of love
triumph of good over evil
timePeriodOfSetting late medieval to baroque fantasy period

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Sleeping Beauty musicAdaptedFrom The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
this entity surface form: "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet"
Mariinsky Theatre notableProduction The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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