The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Opera House, London Wonderful Ensembles & Celebratory Dances This staging of The Sleeping Beauty is the distinctive production by Ninette de Valois, revived for the 75th anniversary celebrations of The Royal Ballet in 2006. A wicked fairy places a curse on an infant princess that dictates she will prick her finger on her sixteenth birthday & die. The Lilac Fairy cannot remove the curse but promises the princess will not die, instead she will sleep for 100 years until being awoken by the kiss of a dashing prince. The Sleeping Beauty has wonderful ensembles such as the famous Waltz, solos
- including the Rose Adage as Aurora meets her suitors
- & the concluding celebratory dances for the happy union of prince & princess.