Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

Princess Aurora: Aurélie Dupont Prince Désiré: Manuel Legris King Florestan: Vincent Cordier The Queen: Nathalie Quernet Catalabutte: Laurent Queval The Lilac Fairy: Béatrice Martel Carabosse: Nathalie Aubin Princess Florina: Delphine Moussin Bluebird: Benjamin Pech Puss In Boots: Stéphane Elizabé White Cat: Laetitia Pujol Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Paris Conductor: David Coleman Sets: Ezio Frigerio. Costumes: Franca Squarciapino. Directed byu Pierre Cavassilas.

The Sleeping Beauty remains, Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the 'ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the 19th century, and the most representative of the 'noble' style of classical dancing. Rudolf Nureyev's version, which he created for the Opera Ballet in 1989, was recoreded at the Opéra Bastille in 1999, in a new production (set and costumes) created by his faithful collaborators, Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino, who had already produced Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and La Bayadere.

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