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Article: The Sleeping Beauty: Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sunderland Empire
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- March 23, 2006
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A MAGNIFICENT golden curtain set the tone for this stunning
production by Peter Wright of The Sleeping Beauty, and as it drew
back to reveal the set for the royal court, there was a gasp of
pleasure from the audience.
Everything about it is beautiful: the costumes and the lighting
are like a Renaissance painting and Tchaikovsky's lush score carries
you away, caught up in the romantic fairytale.
An important guest has been missed off the invitation list for the
christening of the Princess Aurora, and the furious Fairy Carabosse
arrives in glittering black with some truly creepy attendants. She
curses the baby and says that on her 21st birthday she will prick her
finger on a spindle and die. ...