Although Tchaikovsky’s first ballet Swan Lake had not been the success he had hoped for, it did not end his composition of ballets. The Sleeping Beauty was the first collaboration of Petipa and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Carlotta Brianza as Princess Aurora (1890) Through the goodness and protection of the Lilac Fairy, instead of dying when the prophecy is fulfilled on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora falls into an enchanted sleep for a hundred years until she is finally awoken by the kiss of Prince Désiré. The beautiful Princess Aurora, who is cursed at her christening by the wicked fairy Carabosse to prick her finger on a spindle and die. ![]() Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg Ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and apotheosisĭécor by Heinrich Levogt, Mikhail Bocharov, Ivan Andreyev, Konstantin Ivanov and Matvei Shishkov
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