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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa listen ⓘ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any genre.
Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, [1] [2] [3] is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959). Voiced by Mary Costa , Aurora is the only child of King Stefan and Queen Leah.
The song's melody is based on the "Grande valse villageoise" (nicknamed "The Garland Waltz"), from the 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "Once Upon a Dream" serves as the film's main theme, and as the love theme of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip.
A promotional image of the characters from Sleeping Beauty. From left to right: the forest animals, the Goons, Maleficent, Diablo, Prince Phillip, Princess Aurora, Flora, Queen Leah, Fauna, Merryweather, King Stefan, King Hubert, Samson, and the lackey. The following are fictional characters in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty and related media.
The Sleeping Beauty: by Tchaikovsky Aurora Sadler's Wells Ballet billed the performance as The Sleeping Princess. [7] 1940 [6] Dante Sonata: choreography Frederick Ashton, music by Franz Liszt leader of the Children of Light Fonteyn was the first to dance the role in the ballet's debut performance. [6] 1940 [6] The Wise Virgins
Carlotta Brianza and Pavel Gerdt as Princess Aurora and Prince Désiré in the 1890 première of the Sleeping Beauty. Carolina Alice Brianza was born in Milan to Agostino Brianza and Elena Rivolta. [2] She had a younger brother, Arthur Mario Brianza (1867–1944). [3] [a] Brianza studied at the ballet school of La Scala under Carlo Blasis. [5]
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
In 1997, Pantastico joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle as an apprentice, and became a member of the corps de ballet a year later. She was named soloist in 2001 and, a year after dancing Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, a principal in 2004.