Based on the well known fairy tale with a score by Tchaikovsky the Sleeping Beauty is one of the worlds best loved ballets At her christening Princess Aurora is cursed by Carabosse Lessened by the ...

The Sleeping Beauty also holds a special place in the ... Petersburg, but in the more "democratic" Moscow. The Bolshoi Ballet was headed by a Czech, Václav Reisinger (pictured, right), in 1877.