The Sleeping Beauty

Ballet-feerie in three acts with a prologue and an apotheosis

Reconstruction of the 1890 version


Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa after tales of Charles Perrault
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Restaget by Sergei Vikharev
Production based on the Stepanov notation in the Sergeyev Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection
Set design by Henrich Levogt, Mikhail Bocharov, Ivan Andreev, Konstantin Ivanov, Matvei Shishkov
Reproduced by Andrei Voitenko
from original sketches and photographs in the collections of the St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Musical Arts and the Russian State Historical Archive
Costumes by Ivan Vsevolozhsky
Reproduced by Elena Zaitseva
from original sketches in the collections of the St.Petersburg State Theatre Library
Lighting designer by Vladimir Lukasevich
Musical director: Valery Gergiev

Premiere: 3 January 1890, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Premiere of reconstructed version: 30 April 1999, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg