The Sleeping Beauty

…production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty (also called The Sleeping Princess). It proved to be his last major work. He visited the United States in 1922–23, where, among other projects, he designed a private theatre (restored 1990) for Evergreen House (now the Evergreen Museum and Library), the Baltimore…

…Swan Lake (first performed 1877); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); and The Nutcracker (1892).

…in such classical ballets as The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Swan Lake, and Giselle. She also created important roles in several of Frederick Ashton’s ballets, notably the title role in Cinderella (1948). Other celebrated performances were in the premieres of Ninette de Valois’s Promenade (1943), Robert Helpmann’s Miracle in the Gorbals…

…peak in such works as The Sleeping Beauty, in which extended and complex suites of classical dance brought poetic and metaphorical expression to the plot.