Explore our guide to Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ – one of the world ... The Lilac Fairy appears and tells him the story of the sleeping princess. She summons a vision of Aurora ...

In January 1950, anticipating the success of Cinderella, Walt Disney began developing an animated adaptation of another Charles Perrault's tale, Sleeping Beauty. [1] The earliest known story treatment ...

"Sleeping Beauty" remains one of the most beloved of all fairy tales. The story was first published by Charles Perrault in 1697. Perrault's vision of the ageless, enchanted princess slumbering in her ...

Matthew Bourne reimagines Tchaikovsky's ballet of the timeless fairy tale. The story of a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years is turned into a gothic tale for all ages. Show more ...

The story is a bit more complex than the original ... Natasha McAllister rounded out this excellent cast in the role of ...

Work on Sleeping Beauty also took a back seat in the mid ... And when Bruns struggled to find a melody in the original ballet to fit a scene – as with “Skumps,” sung by King Stefan and ...