Oh bliss! A great Tchaikovsky score, a traditional stage design, very detailed costumes, a fairy tale story and superb dancer - all together make a wonderful ballet evening.
Sleeping beauty is a lovely ballet, the story is light and leaves one in high spirits. The royal ballet stuck to Marius Petipa's well-loved choreography and restored the original stage designs.
Aurora was danced by Alexandra Assanelli, a very likeable principal. She was beautiful, fresh and of course a very good dancer, although she had a few insecure moments (the penchée during the rose adagio), but it didn't matter too much. She balanced well during the Rose Adagio, expect for the very last one which was a bit shaky, but she just gave a big grin and the audience was immediately on her side. She was just a perfect match for the innocent character of Aurora.
Also very remarkable was Yuhui Choe as Princess Florine, the audience seemed to really like her.
One scary moment took place during Act 3 as one of the dancers injured herself during her solo - she limbed of the stage and collapsed off-stage. Everyone seemed to be holding their breaths. I hope she'll recover. Apart from the evening went by smoothly with very quick and impressive setting changes.
My personal highlight was definately the Rose Adagio. The music and the choreography are equally exquiste - watch Alina Cojocaru in a flawless rendition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA5C-s4NjoQ
The official trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2nTjN7lwWo
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