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Is there anything similar to The Sleeping Beauty overture? With Tchaikovsky filling the theatre with full-blown fairy tale drama - it's quite the opener.

It's 40 years since Sir Peter Wright's production of The Sleeping Beauty for the Birmingham Royal Ballet first appeared. Faithful to the original Petipa choreography, he was influenced, too, by later productions – Diaghilev's Ballets Russes version, for instance, and Nikolai Sergeiev's staging for the Vic-Wells (later Royal) Ballet. So, BRB's current production at Sadler's Wells offers a pedigree that goes back to the very heart of Russian classical ballet – and all of the demands that go with that. To say that Sleeping Beauty is a challenge for any company i...

Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates the 40th anniversary of Peter Wright’s sumptuous, exacting production at Sadler’s Wells

Ballet superstar Dame Darcey Bussell DBE has danced in four different productions of the Tchaikovsky classic Sleeping Beauty – and there is one…

The Sleeping Beauty awakes in London, Plymouth, Birmingham, Bristol, Salford and Sunderland... Following a sell-out success with one of the most talked about theatrical events of 2023 with Black Sabbath - The Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet has returned to the stage with one of the Company's most beloved classics, Sir Peter Wright's sumptuous staging of