THE SLEEPING BEAUTY by P.I.Čajkovskij
Live at The Royal Opera House, London 01.16.2020
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory.
It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House
in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in
Covent Garden.
Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful Princess Aurora in the
first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund.
Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived by then
Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason and Christopher Newton, returning
Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage.
The masterful 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa is combined with
sections created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell
and Christopher Wheeldon.
Together they create an enchanting sequence of gems in the ballet repertory
– from the iconic Rose Adage, when Aurora meets her four royal suitors,
and the lilting Garland Waltz to the Vision Pas de deux, as Florimund sees
Aurora for the first time, and the celebratory divertissements and final
pas de deux that bring the ballet to its glorious close.
Throughout, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s masterful score takes ballet music
to a height of passion, sophistication and intensity that arguably has
never been surpassed.
Files..........: Intro, Interviews,Part I, II & III
Size...........: 25.2 GiB
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Resolution.....: 1920 x 1080 interlaced TFF
Apect.Ratio....: 16:9
Codec..........: AVC @ 18 Mbps
Format.profile.: High @ L4.0
Audio.Codec....: AC3 5.1 @ 448 kbps
Frame Rate.....: 25 fps
Language.......: English
Subtitles......: Eng, Ces, Dut, Fre, Ger, Ita, Por, Spa & Swe
Sub.Format.....: DVB Subpictures & SRT
Runtime........: 3:07:47