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Article: Dance: Sleeping Beauty Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 23, 1996
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To an IRA terrorist, Tuesday night's performance of Sleeping
Beauty - an occasion designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the
re-opening of the Royal Opera House after the war - must have
seemed like a lost opportunity for yet another parcel of Semtex.
While John and Norma sat in the best dress circle seats, the
Queen had to make do with the restricted view from the Royal Box.
Elsewhere, the House hummed with the chatter of the "I was there in
'46" brigade. But the performance, in attempting to show us that
Sleeping Beauty is as much a touchstone of excellence now as it was
in the Forties, was hampered by two things. First, the current,
hideously designed production, courtesy of Maria ...