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.
