American Ballet Theatre «The sleeping beauty»

«The sleeping beauty» American Ballet Theatre. Ballet in a prologue and three acts (1890)

Opéra Bastille — from 02 to 10 September 2016. Season 2016/2017.

Music, Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski
Choreography, Marius Petipa – Alexei Ratmansky
Costume inspired by the original designs of Léon Bakst

Director, Alexei Ratmansky
Artistic director, Kevin McKenzie

Conductor, Ormsby Wilkins – Charles Barker – David LaMarche
Set design, Richard Hudson
Costume design, Richard Hudson
Lighting design, James F. Ingalls

Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris
Avec la participation des élèves de l’École de Danse de l’Opéra national de Paris
With the support of the american friends of the paris opera & ballet / florence gould artists fund

« The Princess shall pierce her hand with a spindle, but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a deep sleep, which shall last a hundred years. » Charles Perrault, Histoires ou contes du temps passé, 1697.

Alexei Ratmansky looks back to the past on an artistic journey he set out on when he became Director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and that he continues today as artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre. He has chosen to revive The Sleeping Beauty, a gem of the classical repertoire, as it was originally performed in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. A delicate undertaking for an art where transmission rarely takes written form, even though dance notation, such as Stepanov’s, already existed. Based on this notation as well as the correspondence between Marius Petipa and Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Alexei Ratmansky’s work is extremely faithful to the original. The sets and costumes are those created by Léon Bakst for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, who first revived the ballet out of Russia in 1921. A lavish production from the American Ballet Theatre which is returning to the Paris Opera after twenty-five years.

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