Royal Opera House's The Sleeping Beauty

Overview

King Florestan XXIV and his Queen have invited all the fairies to the christening of their daughter, Princess Aurora. The celebration is interrupted by the arrival of Carabosse, the Wicked Fairy. In her anger at not being invited she gives Aurora a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy promises that Aurora will not die but fall into a deep sleep, from which she will be woken by a prince’s kiss.

Top cast

Yasmine Naghdi

Princess Aurora

Matthew Ball

Prince Florimund

Kristen McNally

Carabosse

Mayara Magri

Lilac Fairy

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