Irina Kolpakova
Sergei Berezhnoi
Lubov Kunakova

Conductor: Viktor Fedotov
Directed: Elena Macheret

The Sleeping Beauty is the grandest of all the
surviving 19th-century ballets and the supreme
achievement of the imperial Russian ballet.
First performed in 1890 at the Maryinsky
(now the Kirov) Theatre in St. Petersburg,
the ballet has been preserved in continuous
performance by the company that created it.
The way in which today's heirs of the old
imperial ballet honour the choreographic
genius of Marius Petipa and the glories of
Tchaikovsky's score, means that The Sleeping
Beauty is ideally to be seen in the interpre-
tation of the Kirov Ballet whose performance
in the company's 200th years in captured in
this presentation.

Leading the cast is Irian Kolpakova, recognised
as one of the former Soviet Union's greatest
ballerinas and justly celebrated throughout
the world for the beauty and clarity of her
classic dancing in the role of Princess Aurora.

Time: 166'