The Sleeping Beauty

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One of the most famous, beautiful and solemn classical ballets, and, what rarely happens, with a happy ending. The genius of Tchaikovsky and Petipa turned Perrault's fairy tale into a real hymn to love that can bring back from eternal sleep.

At the Bolshoi Theater, the ballet is being performed in the version by Yuri Grigorovich, and since 2024 with the unrivaled set design and costumes by Simon Virsaladze, Grigorovich's regular co-author at the Bolshoi.

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Actors

King Florestan XIV

Aleksey Loparevich

Queen

Anastasia Meskova

Princess Aurora

Elizaveta Kokoreva

Prince Désiré

Artem Ovcharenko

Lilac Fairy

Alyona Kovalyova

Evil Fairy Carabosse

Denis Savin

Princess Florine

Anastasiya Stashkevich

Bluebird

Klim Efimov

Fairy of Diamonds

Margarita Shrainer

Catalabutte

Yuriy Ostrovskiy

Crew

Libretto based on fairy tales by Charles Perrault

Marius Petipa, Ivan Vsevolzhskiy

Choreographic Version

Yuri Grigorovich

Ballet Master

Regina Nikiforova

Stage & costume design

Simon Virsaladze

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Music Directors

Pavel Klinichev, Pavel Sorokin

Lighting designer

Mikhail Sokolov

About

"The Sleeping Beauty" is a ceremonial ballet, crowded, colorful and fabulously beautiful, in a word, a real Imperial Theatre ballet. Charles Perrault hardly suspected that such a fairy tale could be created from his cute, simple fairy tale. But the genius of Tchaikovsky and the talent of choreographers, who added something to the first version in different years, say that aт enchanting spectacle is possible. The fairies endow the little princess with many wonderful qualities, but they cannot protect her from trials. What is a fairy tale without trials?

The main thing is that the fairy tale has a happy ending: the princess finds her happiness; the evil, albeit incredibly charismatic fairy is punished, and the most beloved fairy tale characters dance at the wedding.