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 is putting it mildly. There are numerous starring roles and set pieces, solos and pas de deux, and for BRB – a company that is on truly top form – this became an opportunity for pure on-stage bravura. Enrique Bejarano Vidal and Beatrice Parma pulled out all the stops as the Bluebird and the Enchanted Princess (characters from Russian fairy tale). The Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat pas de deux
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