睡美人故事的起源及歌舞剧(英文)讲述.pptVIP

The Sleeping Beauty The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue 序幕 and three acts, first performed in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and is the second of his three ballets. The choreographer of the original production was Marius Petipa (马里乌斯·彼季帕) Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (1818 — 1910) was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived. The Imperial Theatres (the Mariinsky Theatre) had been his home for fifty-six years. The three Petipa / Tchaikovsky masterpieces: The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake considered by many to be the greatest ballets of all time show classical ballet at its best. After a lifetime of ballet Marius Petipa came to be known as the father of Russian ballet. The sleeping beauty has become one of the classical repertoire保留剧目s most famous ballets. Prologue King Florestan the XXIVth declares a grand christening洗礼仪式ceremony to be held in honor of the birth of his daughter, Princess Aurora named after the dawn. Six fairies are invited to the Christening to be godmothers to the child. They are the Fairies of Strength, Brightness, and Beauty, along with the queen of the fairies, the Lilac丁香 Fairy. As the fairies are happily granting gifts of honesty, grace, prosperity, song and generosity, they are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the wicked fairy Carabosse, who is furious at the Kings failure to invite her to the ceremony. With spite 敌意 and rage, Carabosse declares her curse on Princess Aurora: she will prick刺, 戳 her finger on her sixteenth birthday and die. But the Lilac Fairy, fortunately, has not yet granted her gift to the Princess. She cannot completely reverse the curse 逆转诅咒. However, she declares, though the Princess shall indeed prick her finger, she will not die, but instead sleep for 100 years until she is