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The Sleeping Beauty
Ballet in 3 Acts with Prologue and Apotheosis
OPERA HOUSE |
| <STAFF> |
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| Artistic Director |
: Maki Asami |
| Choreography |
: Marius Petipa |
| Music |
: Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| Revised by |
: Konstantin Sergeyev |
| Staged by |
: Oleg Vinogradov |
| Conductor |
: Boris Gruzin |
| Orchestra |
: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Designs |
: Simon Virsaladze |
| Lighting |
: Vladimir Lukasevich |
| Stage Manager |
: Osawa Hiroshi (The Stuff) |
| Scenery and costumes executed by |
: Mariinsky Theatre |
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| <CAST> |
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June
2004 |
Friday
4 |
Saturday
5 |
Sunday
6 |
Saturday
12 |
Sunday
13 |
| Princess Aurora |
Svetlana
Zakharova |
Sakai
Hana |
Svetlana
Zakharova |
Atsugi
Mia |
Saito
Miho |
| Prince Désiré |
Igor
Zelensky |
Yamamoto
Ryuji |
Igor
Zelensky |
Henmi
Tomohiko |
Denis
Matvienko |
Massimo Acri, Endo Mutsuko, Omori Yuki, Takahashi Ari, Terashima Hiromi,
Nishikawa Takako, Nishiyama Yuko, Maeda Nina, Matada Kumiko, Motojima Miwa,
Yukawa Mamiko, Ichikawa Toru, Guennadi Iline, Emoto Taku, Okuda Shinya,
Chen Xiujie, Tomikawa Yuki, Mailen Tleoubaev, Grigory Barinov, Yoshimoto
Yasuhisa
New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo |
| <PERFORMANCES> |
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| June 2004 |
Friday
4 |
Saturday
5 |
Sunday
6 |
Saturday
12 |
Sunday
13 |
| 2:00pm |
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| 5:00pm |
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| 6:30pm |
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Doors will open 60 minutes before the opening of performance.
Approximate running time: 3 hours, 45 minutes with 3 intermissions |
| <ADVANCE TICKETS> |
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Available from Thursday 29 April, 2004 at 10:00am.
To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm) |
| <TICKET PRICES> |
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| Type |
Seat S |
Seat A |
Seat B |
Seat C |
| Price |
¥9,450 |
¥6,300 |
¥4,200 |
¥3,150 |
Seat Z(¥1,500) is sold only on the performance day at the Box Office
and exclusive Ticket Pia Offices.
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The performance on
5 June is "McDonald Special Night", supported by McDonald's Co. (Japan),
Ltd.
All seats will be available
in a half price (including tax)
| Seat S: ¥4,725 |
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Seat A: ¥3,150 |
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Seat B: ¥2,100 |
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Seat C: ¥1,575 |
Tickets will be sold at the Box Office and Ticket Pia Offices only.
Any discount will not be offered due to the special prices of the night,
but Seat Z (¥1,500) is sold as usual performances. |
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 The
brillain end to the NNTT’s 2003/2004 season is the ballet The
Sleeping Beauty. Among Tchaikovsky’s three major ballet scores,
The Sleeping Beauty is known as the largest in scale. It is
a masterpiece with the dignity and stylized beauty that one expects
from a work acclaimed as the high-water mark of 19th-century Russian
ballet, which flourished at the time around the choreographer Marius
Petipa. The ballet is unparalleled in terms of the large number of characters
that appear and the dazzling stage setting and dancing. The ballet was
first performed at the NNTT in the fall of 1997 as part of a program
celebrating its grand opening. This will be the first production of
The Sleeping Beauty in three years following its restaging
in 2001, and will feature four pairs of dancers for the leading roles,
including some who are making their debut. Enjoy the ultimate charm
of grand ballet with the NNTT’s The Sleeping Beauty.
Synopsis
The curtain rises on the scene of a christening ceremony to celebrate
the birth of a princess. Fairies bestow their blessings on Princess Aurora
one after another but are interrupted by the arrival of the evil witch
Carabosse, who is enraged that the king did not invite her to the ceremony.
Carabosse places a curse upon Aurora so that she will one day prick her
finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. On the occasion of
her 16th birthday, Aurora, who has grown to be a shining beauty, is tricked
by Carabosse, who has disguised herself as an old woman, and pricks her
finger with a needle and fades away. The Lilac Fairy appears in front
of the guests who are in deep grief and casts another spell on the sleeping
princess to mitigate the curse, saying, “She is not dead but is
just sleeping.” A hundred years later, when a prince, led by the
Lilac Fairy, kisses the sleeping Aurora, the curse is immediately broken
and Princess Aurora awakes. A grand wedding ceremony is held for the prince
and the princess, and the two live happily ever after.
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