Sleeping Beauty
Antelope Valley Ballet Presents– The Sleeping Beauty – Saturday, May 13, 2016 7 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2016 2 PM
The Sleeping Beauty is often considered the finest achievement of Classical ballet with a grandiose and refined blending of traditional expressive mime and spectacular dances in a lavish theatrical setting. Tchaikovsky was delighted with the invitation to write the music for a ballet based on Charles Perrault's well-known fairy tale. A baby princess, condemned at her christening by an evil fairy to prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday, is saved by the gift of the good Lilac Fairy, who declares the princess will only sleep until awakened by the kiss of a prince. The fairy tale, replete with a king and queen, fairies both good and evil, a beautiful princess and dream prince, magical stage effects and courtly splendor is a storybook kingdom set in the realm of the imagination.
Tickets: $28, $24, Youth $14