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Carlotta Brianza, Prima Ballerina


 
The most sumptuous ballet, almost “The Ballet”: At its debut in St. Petersburg in 1890 (with the Italian Carlotta Brianza on stage in the role of Aurora). The Sleeping Beauty witnesses the development of an exemplary collaboration between choreographer (Petipa), composer (Tchaikovsky) and the director of the Imperial Theatres Vsevolozhsky, who also created the costumes, to reveal to the eyes of the aristocracy of St. Petersburg the gilded and fabulous grandeur of the court of the Sun King.