Sleeping Beauty at the Cape Town Artscape Opera House

Considered by many as the ultimate classical ballet, The Sleeping Beauty will once again be performed in Cape Town after an absence of nine years, at Artscape's Opera House, May 20 - June 4, 2006

Tchaikovsky's spellbinding score will be brought to life by the Cape Philharmonic under the direction of British-born composer & conductor, Michael Hankinson, & by the dancers of South Africa's oldest ballet company, The Cape Town City Ballet. This production features the popular husband & wife team, Marianne Bauer & Coert Grobbelaar as Aurora and Prince Florimund, Robin van Wyk as the evil fairy Carabosse & Christy Johnson the benevolent Lilac Fairy

First staged in 1975 by David Poole after Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty has remained one of the most popular ballets in the classical repertoire & other versions are performed regularly world wide. Sleeping Beauty enthralls the young, with diverts such as Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots & the Blue Bird pas de deux in Act 3, but also satisfies the discerning ballet lover with the breath-taking Rose Adage from Act 1 & the famous Grand Pas in Act 3

Executive Director Elizabeth Triegaardt, Poole's original Lilac Fairy, has reproduced CTCB's 2006 production for the company. 'We owe it to David Poole, the dancers of then & now, the world of classical dance & the dancers of the future to keep classics such as The Sleeping Beauty alive' says CTCB's Elizabeth Triegaardt

Venue: Artscape's Opera House
Time: 20H00
Booking opens: 27th February

Source:www.capetowncityballet.org.za

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