Sleeping Beauty
From: Wednesday, 17th March 2010
To: Saturday, 20 March 2010
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Synopsis
Sleeping Beauty is the much-loved tale of a cursed princess doomed to sleep for one hundred years. However, the enchantment is finally broken with an handsome prince awakens when with a kiss.
Our Review:
Stephen Taylor - 17 March 2010
Sleepy Beauty is a monumental work. It is 2 hours 50 mins long, it has a large cast and an extravagant sumptuous wardrobe! Yet underneath this Tchaikovsky masterpiece is a simple classic Russian fairy story which when done well has a universal appeal.
Birmingham Royal Ballet production does this very well. When the curtain rose at 7.30 there was a ‘Wow’ from the audience. It was a scene that is usually reserved for the climatic wedding at the end of the production, this high impact visual celebration of the birth of Princess Aurora is hugely impressive with many of the ‘Artists of BRB’ looking splendid, graceful and majestic.
This serene wonder continues until the aggrieved Fairy Carabosse (wonderfully played by Marion Tait) make an extraordinary entrance to vent her displeasure at not being invited. The Lilac Fairy, classically beautiful, contrasts with the back menacing dress of Carabosse and the evil verse good battle is set.
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Creative
Tchaikovsky (Music)
Birmingham Royal Ballet (Company)
Peter Wright (this production) (Choreographer)
Marius Petipa (Choreographer)
Philip Prowse (Design)
Mark Jonathan (Lighting)
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