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The Sleeping Beauty
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The Sleeping Beauty

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The Sleeping Beauty
Production: Première - December 12th, 1968, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; First performed by Fonteyn in 1969
Music: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Peter Wright
Design: Lila de Nobili
Character: Princess Aurora

An ornate tutu, the boned bodice of rose pink plush velvet trimmed with ivory velvet embroidered with a pattern of black diamond-shaped beads to simulate ermine, the short sleeves trimmed with a row of imitation seed pearls, the bodice further embellished with gold lamé and gold and silver sequins embroidered in a fleur-de-lis pattern, the skirt of dusty pink stiffened tulle with scalloped edges and matching decorative overlay of gold lamé and gold and silver sequins, with Royal Opera House printed label inscribed in black ballpoint pen with details - Production: Sleeping Beauty, Act: 1, Character: Aurora, Name: Fonteyn; accompanied by a corresponding photograph of Fonteyn and Leslie Edwards [not illustrated here] (2)
Literature
MONEY, Keith Fonteyn, The Making of a Legend, Zurich: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1973, p.83
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Lot Essay

The Royal Ballet restaged the entire production of The Sleeping Beauty in 1968. Critics raved about Fonteyn's performance: ...At the second performance, she was incomparable from start to finish...was so carefree and coltish that there was no doubt at all that one was watching a sixteen-year-old at play. Fonteyn at fifty? Hers is the art, not simply the act, of dancing.. (Walter Terry on The Sleeping Beauty, Saturday Review 16.5.70)

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