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The Sleeping Beauty (2017)

Name: The Sleeping Beauty
Director: Ross MacGibbon
Genre: Music, Fantasy
Released: 2017-02-28
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Marianela Núñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Christopher Saunders, Elizabeth McGorian, Alastair Marriott

138 min · United Kingdom · Dir. Ross MacGibbon

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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.