Ballet

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)
Musical Director and Conductor: Aivo Välja
Conductor: Lauri Sirp
Stage Designer: Bo-Ruben Hedwall (Sweden)
Costume Designer: Emma Gaufin (Sweden)
Light Designer: Tõnu Eimra

In Roles: Hayley Blackburn, Nashua Mironova, Mai Kageyama, Steven Melendez, Takuya Sumitomo, Colin Thomas Maggs, Saori Nagata, Janika Suurmets, Julia Litvinenko, Ilja Mironov, Rita Dolgihh, Ruslan Stepanov, Marika Aidla, Guy William Burden, Raminta Rudžionyte, Rebecca Peters, Julia Kaškovskaja, Laura Quin, Kristina Markevičiute, Rosamund Ford, Emily Hughes, Anna Shircliff, Fenella Cook, Daniil Kolmin, Valentine Legat, Daniel Szybkowski, Alens Piskunovs, Matthew Jordan, Aivar Kallaste, Maarja Paugus, Elias Girod, Milena Tuominen, Janek Savolainen, Silas Stubbs, Anthony Maloney, Jonathan Ammerlaan, Vjatšeslav Ladoškin, Vladimirs Latišonoks, Katrina Külm, Viktoria Soodla, Hanna Brigita Jaanovits, Egeli Paama, Katriin Käärik, Karina-Laura Leškin, Helen Värno, Annabret Helena Järv, Annabell Raudsepp

Presented with one interval.
Running Time:

2:30

Performances:

06.10.2010	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre
20.10.2010	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre
20.11.2010	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre
08.12.2010	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre
17.02.2011	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre
02.03.2011	19:00	The Grand Building of Vanemuine Theatre

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.

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