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The Sleeping Beauty
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The Sleeping Beauty

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The Sleeping Beauty
Production: Première - March 15th, 1973, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Music: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: After Marius Petipa with additions by Kenneth MacMillan, Frederick Ashton and Fyodor Lopokov - production by Kenneth MacMillan
Design: Peter Farmer
Character: Rose Adagio Act 1 & Princess Aurora Act II

Two headdresses, both silvered wire, cloth and rhinestone tiaras of flowerhead, leaf and tendril design, one for Rose Adagio with pink fabric flowers and pink rhinestones, the other for Princess Aurora in The Vision Scene, with white fabric flowers, clear and pink rhinestones (2)
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Lot Essay

According to The Royal Opera House, although Margot Fonteyn danced the pas de deux with Nureyev in Act III of this production, she did not dance in the other two Acts. Curiously these headdresses are associated with Act I and Act II, it seems possible therefore that Fonteyn acquired them from the Opera House following the closure of this production and used them for her freelance work.

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