Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty — Kirov Ballet DVD – Farukh Ruzimatov , Larissa Lezhnina

The first performance of Sleeping Beauty at the Marinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1890 choreographed by the legendary ballet master Marius Petipa was doubtless the pinnacle of classic Russian ballet tradition.Tchaikovsky’s score composed in 1889 was created based on a scenario from Petipa that took the composer’s wishes into account from the outset. It was a ‘number’ ballet score which was a homage to the baroque ‘ballet de cour.’ The premiere of Sleeping Beauty was not gr