Thursday, May 2, 2013

Music #377 - Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

/ˈpiːtər ˈɪlɨtʃ tʃaɪˈkɒfski/ (1840 – 1893)

“Though a master of many forms of musical composition,  Tchaikovsky is perhaps best known for his romantic ballets..... His three ballets -- Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker -- show off his trademark lusciously scored melodies.”

The Sleeping Beauty 

A ballet with a prologue and 3 acts.


now renamed the Mariinsky Theater of St Petersburg 


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