The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty ballet. Music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Direction and choreography by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell, and Christopher Wheeldon  (based on tradition of Marius Petipa). Produced 2006 at Royal Opera House by Monica Mason and Christopher Newton.  Stars Alina Cojocaru, Federico Bonelli, Marianela Nuñez, Christopher Saunders, Elizabeth McGorian, Alastair Marriott, and Genesia Rosato. Also features Isabel McMeekan, Ricardo Cervera, Lauren Cuthbertson, Andrej Uspenski, Mara Galeazzi, Johannes Stepanek, Natasha Oughtred, José Martin, Laura Morera, Ernst Meisner, Valeri Hristov, Gary Avis, Edward Watson, David Makhatelli, Gemma Bond, Helen Crawford, Victoria Hewitt, Hikaru Kobayashi, Iohna Loots, Samanthan Raine, Gemma Sykes, Jonathan Howells, Deirdre Chapman, Sarah Lamb, Yohei Sasaki, David Pickering, artists of the Royal Ballet and students of the Royal Ballet School. Valeriy Ovsyanikov conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Original designs by Oliver Messel and Peter Farmer; lighting by Mark Jonathan; staging by Christopher Carr; directed for TV by Ross McGibbon.  Released 2009, disc has 5.1 PCM sound. Grade: A

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