Sleeping Beauty Tickets For Sale

Sleeping Beauty is a classic story that has lived on for hundreds of years. There have been many incarnations of the classic fairy tale, a story that debuted way back in 1697. There is of course the Disney version from 1959, but there is also the stage version, a ballet created by Russian composer Tchaikovsky that first debuted in 1890.

Now Sleeping Beauty has awakened again for ballet and classical music lovers, who can relive the incredible dancing and score that has remained a classic for over a hundred years.

Once Upon a Broadway Show.

Sleeping Beauty was first created in 1697 by Frenchman Charles Perrault, who also created the fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and Cinderella, which were all compiled in the book, Stories or Tales From Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose.

A number of the stories were handed down in the oral tradition, parents telling them as bedtime stories to their children, before Perrault put them down on paper (other fairy tales were also compiled in writing by the Brothers Grimm). Perrault also used these fairy tales to teach his own children, as many others have throughout the centuries.

Sleeping Beauty is one of a number of great musical pieces of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, one of the most important composers of the 19th century, who also created the symphonies The 1812 Overture, as well as the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

The idea of turning Sleeping Beauty into a ballet was given to Tchaikovsky by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, who was the Director of the Imperial Theaters in Russia. “It wouldn’t be a bad idea, by the way, for you to compose a ballet,” he told Tchaikovsky. Looking back on his work, Sleeping Beauty was one of Tchaikovsky’s favorite creations.

Sleeping Beauty is an important ballet in history for a number of reasons. Sleeping Beauty was Tchaikovsky’s first successful ballet, and it was also the ballet that famed ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev made his stage debut with.

Lucia Chase, who founded the American Ballet Theater, also debuted in Sleeping Beauty, not to mention the first ballet performed by the Royal Ballet in the United States, as well as a major inspiration to famed Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who decided she wanted to be a dancer when she grew up after seeing Sleeping Beauty when she was eight years old.

An Incredible Force of Dance and Composition

One recent review of the Sleeping Beauty ballet recalled traveling through a horrendous snow storm to catch the stage production, but that it was so powerful that the reviewer remarked, “There are indeed stronger forces of nature than a winter whiteout,” also calling Tchaikovsky’s classic score “luminous.”

It has also been remarked that Tchaikovsky’s music for Sleeping Beauty were “ideally written for the body…Surely no composer has better understood the particularities of dance phrasing, the timing and rhythms best suited to the body’s elegant sweep thorugh space.

Another reviewer from the New York Times claimed he saw Sleeping Beauty more than 100 times, and as yet another review for the ballet has claimed, “Sleeping Beauty is an amazing union of the strength, athleticism, grace and precision…” Over a hundred years since its debut, Sleeping Beauty also clearly continues to be an incredible fusion of great classical music, dance and beauty.