No fewer than eighteen times over the festive Christmas period, Dutch National Ballet will awaken The Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. More than 125 years after its premiere, the classical fairytale ballet by Marius Petipa to music by Tchaikovsky still forms the touchstone for ballet dancers all over the world.
Dutch National Ballet is presenting the Russian crown jewel The Sleeping Beauty in the version by Englishman Sir Peter Wright. This version has all the glitter and style that befits a ballet originally intended for the court of the Russian tsar.