SLEEPING BEAUTY
(Uinuv kaunitar)
A ballet in two acts.

Pär Isberg makes the time and space move in a completely unique way – the music is the same, the story is basically the same, even the dance technique is the same, but the result is exceptionally exciting.

Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreographer-Director, Libretto – Pär Isberg (Royal Swedish Ballet)
Stage Designer: Bo Ruben Hedwall
Costume Designer: Emma Gaufin
Musical Director and Conductor: Aivo Välja
Conductor: Lauri Sirp
The Vanemuine ballet troupe and symphony orchestra

Marius Petipa’s ballet version of Sleeping Beauty for the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which first premiered in St. Petersburg’s Maria Theatre in 1890, is more than 100 years old and one of the most famous stage stories of the classical ballets. The libretto was written by Ivan Vsevoložsky based on Charles Perrault’s fairytale La Belle au Bois Dormant. Among other classical ballets Sleeping Beauty is one of the most famous. The divertissements in the fourth act of the ballet have over the years been the favourite pieces at all kinds of competitions and galas. Sleeping Beauty is a story the keywords of which have through history been the following – ancient kingdom, secret curse and true love.
The premiere on 4 October 2008 in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine.

Event links: http://www.vanemuine.ee