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SLEEPING PRINCESS PREMIERE * Revival of Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty, St Petersburg, 1890 |
In 1921 Serge Diaghilev produced his first full-length three-act ballet, The Sleeping Princess, a revival of the 19th-century classic, The Sleeping Beauty. No expense was spared and Bakst designed hundreds of opulently detailed costumes in strong jewel-like colours. Diaghilev's attempt to revive the grand traditions of Russia's Imperial Ballet, however, was not popular and almost bankrupted his company. Thereafter he returned to the programs of short, one-act ballets that he had been producing since 1909. |
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