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NEW NATIONAL THEATRE BALLET,
TOKYO
The Sleeping Beauty <Ballet in 3 Acts with Prologue
and Apotheosis >
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PERFORMANCES |
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Doors
will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.
Approximate running time: 3 hours, 40 minutes, with 3 intermission |
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ADVANCE TICKETS |
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| Available from Saturday 19 March, 2005
at 10:00am. To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm). Internet ticket reservation available through the following Websites.(Japanese only) http://t.pia.co.jp/ http://eee.eplus.co.jp/ |
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TICKET PRICES (with tax) |
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*Centre
balcony row 4 / Side balcony row 3-4 (¥3,150): Sold at
the NNTT Box Office and all Ticket Pia outlets on the performance
date only. Up to 2 tickets per person. No phone reservations.
*Seat Z(¥1,500): Sold to students only at some Ticket
Pia outlets on the day before the performance. Any tickets not sold
by the performance date will be released to the general public at
the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets. One ticket per
person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student
ID. *Same day student tickets (50%
off, except Centre balcony row 4 &
Side balcony row 3-4 ): Sold
at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance
date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must
bring a valid student ID.
*Opera House Ticket Prices & Seating Plan |
![handbill [The Sleeping Beauty]](../../../season/s259/images/bill259.jpg)
Based on Perrault’s widely known fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty is known for being the largest in scale among the three major ballets by Tchaikovsky.It is unparalleled in the variety of music, as well as the large number of characters and the lavish scenery, costumes, music and choreography. The story runs from the birth of Princess Aurora to her 100-year sleep and to her happy marriage with the ideal prince and is portrayed with dancing resembling a gorgeously colored ballet picture scroll.It is a masterpiece with dignity and stylistic beauty that makes it deserve to be called the high-water mark of 19th-century Russian ballet which flourished around Petipa. The Sleeping Beauty was first performed at the NNTT as part of the program to celebrate the grand opening of the theatre in the autumn of 1997, and its luxurious and splendid performance graced the inauguration of the theater.It has been well received every time it has been staged, and this season marks its fourth performance.Befitting the Golden Week holidays, four distinguished dancers, including a guest dancer from the Bolshoi Theatre, will dance as Princess Aurora, vying with one another in splendor.Supporting the beautiful Princess Aurora, the New National Theatre Ballet, which was honored with the Fourth Asahi Performing Arts Award, will deliver The Sleeping Beauty to you with all its heart.Please enjoy the charm of grand ballet to the fullest. |
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SynopsisThe curtain rises on the scene of the christening ceremony to celebrate the birth of a princess.As fairies bestow their blessings on Princess Aurora one after another, the wicked fairy Carabosse, who is enraged that she was not invited to the ceremony, places a curse upon Aurora that she will one day prick her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel and die.And on her 16th birthday, Aurora does indeed do just that and fades away.One hundred years later, when a prince, led by the Lilac Fairy, kisses the sleeping Aurora, the curse is immediately broken and Princess Aurora awakens.A grand wedding ceremony is held for the prince and the princess.
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Svetlana Zakharova* <Bolshoi Theatre> |
Terashima Hiromi |
Shiga Misae |
Matada Kumiko |
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