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St. Petersburg Festival Ballet “Sleeping Beauty”
St. Petersburg Festival Ballet will present the Belgrade public performance of \"Sleeping Beauty\" 8 November at the Belgrade Arena on the theater scene.
A brilliant company that has gathered within itself all that is called the \"Russian school of classical ballet\" - the strict classic elegance, a fresh breath of the twenty-first century, a perfect dance performance in combination with a truly royal splendor of costumes and scenery.
St. Petersburg Festival Ballet combines best traditions and spirit of St. Petersburg ballet. Elegance, grace, delightful lightness is what makes the St. Petersburg ballet different.
St. Petersburg Festival Ballet is based on a some leading ballet artists from St. Petersburg and the ballet troupe of the Ufa State Ballet Theater. Relationship between Ufa and St. Petersburg is more than symbolic ... Ufa is the continuator of St. Petersburg Ballet traditions and one of Russia\'s best ballet Theaters.
The ballet basic repertoire of the theatre consists of about 20 performances: \"Swan Lake\", \"Sleeping Beauty\", \"Nutcracker\" by P. Tchaikovsky, \"Carmen\" Suite by G.Bizet - R. Shchedrin, \"La Bayaderу\", \"Don Quixote\", \"Paquite\" by Minkus, \"Giselle\" by Adan, \"La fille mal gardee\" by Gertel, \"La Sylphide\" by Lovenskjøld, \"Blue Danube\" by Strauss, \"The night of Valpurg\" by Gounod, \"Cinderella\", \"Romeo and Juliet\" by Prokofiev, \"The Fountain of Bakhchisaray\" by Asafiev and others in which the producers and performers succeed in achieving true craft.
The theatre often goes on tours abroad all over the world, it gave performances in the USA (1995, 1996), France (1995), Holland (1996), Belgium (1996), Italy (2000, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011), Germany (2011), Portugal (2005, 2007), Finland (2011), Czech Republic (2011), Brazil (2007), Thailand (2006, 2007, 2008), China (2008), Egypt (2003, 2005).
The Sleeping Beauty was the first of Petipa\'s classics to be seen in Western Europe. Under the title The Sleeping Princess, it was presented by Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) in London in 1921. In 1939, it was remounted in Great Britain and has been considered the foundation of the Classical ballet repertory in that country ever since. It has now been adopted worldwide, and performance of the leading role remains a kind of initiation rite for aspiring ballerinas.
The story about the beautiful sleeping princess and the brave prince who wakes her up with a kiss, Tchaikovsky composed some of his most beautiful music. The magnificent stage design of the production takes the audience to the wonderland of fairies and beauties.
Sleeping Beauty is one of the most popular ballets and belongs to the international standard repertoire of the classical ballet. Tchaikovsky himself held it for his best ballet.
The Russian expression says: \"Better to see once than hear a hundred times\". Sometimes it is simply better himself be present at this wonderful shows.
