The Bolshoi’s sumptuous staging with its luxurious sets and costumes, over a hundred dancers and a lot of ballet variations at the highest level. The Sleeping Beauty is a spectacle worthy of the Tsar's court for which it was created. On March 10, 2019 at 4.00 p.m., you can watch the ballet at the Kino Praha cinema in Warsaw.
The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1890. The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant. The choreographer of the original production was Marius Petipa. The music was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky strictly according to the instructions and choreographic plan of Petipa. The work has become one of the classical repertoire's most famous ballets.
In 1963, the Moscow Bolshoi Theater presented The Sleeping Beauty in the version of Yuri Grigorovich (one of the leading choreographers of Bolshoi), which was based on the original choreography of Petipa. In 2011, Grigorowicz revised the staging: he changed the set design and costumes, and moved the action to the nineteenth-century manor of imperial Russia. The ballet, starring Olga Smirnov as the Princess Aurora and Siemion Chudin as Prince Desiré, was broadcast live in HD on January 22, 2017. The retransmission of this broadcast will be screened at cinemas worldwide.
The list of places in Poland, where you can watch broadcasts from the Bolshoi Theater, is available here.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl