The Sleeping Beauty

We'll keep an eye on.

And then the World Ballet Company, The Sleeping Beauty.

The Sleeping Beauty is the name of their production.

That's coming to Stiefel Theater April 8th.

Just announced.

The show will actually feature a live orchestra.

Those tickets go on sale this Friday morning, 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com. It's the World Ballet Company, The Sleeping Beauty.

If you'd like to see that.

Ballet Suites Suite from the ballet Swan Lake, Le Lac des Cygnes All told, Tchaikovsky wrote three ballets plus a scattering of incidental dances for operas beginning with the surviving Voivode fragments.

The composition of Swan Lake, first of the trio, the others being The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, originated in a two-fold impulse, the need for ready cash and a fondness for French ballet music, especially the works of Delibes and the Giselle of Adolphe Adam, which Tchaikovsky regarded as archetype.

He evidently thought little of his initial effort, for shortly after the Moscow production of Swan Lake, he recorded in his diary, Lately I have heard Delibes' very clever music.

Swan Lake is poor stuff compared to it.

Tchaikovsky's close friend and collaborator, Kashkin, is authority for the statement that an Adagio section in Swan Lake was a love duet in the opera Undine before it found new lodgings.

Conversely, a danse russe in the group of piano pieces Opus Forty was written for Swan Lake, thus balancing matters.

Like The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, Swan Lake is famed for its waltz.

The score brims with typical Tchaikovskian melody, and probably for the first time in ballet music, a scheme of leitmotifs is used, two of the principal subjects being the tremulous theme of the swans in flight and the hauntingly wistful theme of Odette herself, assigned to the oboe against soft strings and harp arpeggios.

Ballet Suites Suite from the ballet Swan Lake, Le Lac des Cygnes All told, Tchaikovsky wrote three ballets plus a scattering of incidental dances for operas beginning with the surviving Voivode fragments.

The composition of Swan Lake, first of the trio, the others being The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, originated in a two-fold impulse, the need for ready cash and a fondness for French ballet music, especially the works of Delibes and the Giselle of Adolphe Adam, which Tchaikovsky regarded as archetype.

He evidently thought little of his initial effort, for shortly after the Moscow production of Swan Lake, he recorded in his diary, Lately I have heard Delibes' very clever music.

Swan Lake is poor stuff compared to it.

Tchaikovsky's close friend and collaborator Kashkin is authority for the statement that an adagio section in Swan Lake was a love duet in the opera Undine before it found new lodgings.

Conversely, a danse russe in the group of piano pieces Opus 40 was written for Swan Lake, thus balancing matters.

Like The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, Swan Lake is famed for its waltz.

The score brims with typical Tchaikovskian melody and probably for the first time in ballet music, a scheme of leitmotifs is used, two of the principal subjects being the tremulous theme of the swans in flight and the hauntingly wistful theme of Odette herself, assigned to the oboe against soft strings and harp arpeggios.