SLEEPING BEAUTY - ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET Tickets and Dates

SLEEPING BEAUTY Booking Period 9 - 19 January 2013 There is a family friendly performance of Sleeping Beauty, where under 5s are welcome, on 15 January 2013 at 2.30pm. ★★★★ "... no brighter plum has appeared for years than Kenneth MacMillan's The Sleeping Beauty. What a triumph. Millions of steps, hundreds of costumes, dozens of dancers and a symphony orchestra" Sunday Express "...ravishing... extra helpings of glitter." The Times ★★★★ "...both lovely and durable - a staging of Sleeping Beauty so appealing it should keep for another 20 years... English National Ballet have a production to inspire not one but two generations" The Guardian The Sleeping Beauty reawakens the magic of the world's favourite fairy tale in an enchanted world of castles and curses, forests and fairies. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Princess Aurora lived in an enchanted castle where fairies bestowed her with gifts of beauty, temperament, purity, joy, wit and generosity. The wicked Fairy Carabosse put a curse on Aurora; to prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday. The beautiful and kind Lilac Fairy cast a spell to counter the curse so that instead of dying Aurora fell asleep for a hundred years. Only the touch of true love's kiss could awaken her and undo the evil spell... Kenneth MacMillan's production of the popular classic is the perfect way bring some sparkle into your New Year. The Sleeping Beauty features some of Tchaikovsky's best-loved ballet music ever, including the Rose Adagio and the music used as Once Upon a Dream in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.