Release Date

16 Jan, 2020

Runtime

02:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break. 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. Recorded live as part of the Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2019/20 with encore screenings broadcast online during the #OurHousetoYourHouse programme.

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Actors

Fumi Kaneko

Federico Bonelli

Gina Storm-Jensen

Kristen McNally

Christopher Saunders

Elizabeth McGorian

Thomas Whitehead

Romany Pajdak

Luca Acri

Mayara Magri

Valentino Zucchetti

Claire Calvert

Calvin Richardson

Anna Rose O'Sullivan

James Hay

Yuhui Choe

Cesar Corrales

Nicol Edmonds

Gary Avis

David Donnelly

Tomas Mock

Crew

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Marius Petipa

Wayne Ratcliffe

Christopher Newton

Anthony Dowell

Peter Farmer

Christopher Wheeldon

Ivan Vsevolozhsky

Mark Jonathan

Monica Mason

Christopher Carr

Frederick Ashton

Ross MacGibbon

Ivan Vsevolozhsky