It is probably the “ballet par excellence”: “Sleeping Beauty”, performed in 2019 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with choreography by Rudolph Nureyev and performances by the étoile Polina Semionova in the role of Princess Aurora and Timofej Andrijashenko as Prince Désiré. An appointment that Rai Cultura offers on Thursday January 4th at 9:15 p.m. on Rai 5. Felix Korobov will conduct Tchaikovsky's extraordinary score. In addition to Aurora and Désiré, the evil fairy Carabosse (played by Beatrice Carbone), The Blue Bird and Princess Fiorina (Claudio Coviello with Vittoria Valerio) and the performers of The Pas de Cinque: Virna Toppi and Nicola Del Freo, Alessandra Vassallo, Gaia Andreanò , Caterina Bianchi. With costumes by Oscar winner Franca Squarciapino, designed for La Scala in 1993. The TV direction is by Arnalda Canali. Twelve years after the previous performances, the ballet returned to the Piermarini from June 26th to July 9th, 2019. It came to La Scala for the first time in 1966 with a choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Nureyev, who together took on the role of Principe with Carla Fracci in the role of Princess Aurora. Nureyev's successful and complex choreographic reinterpretation continues to be performed at La Scala over the years until its most recent performance in 2019. Nureyev maintains the extraordinary purity of Petipa's original choreography, but with a new theatrical and dramatic touch, an inner motivation and remarkable variations, a complex and composite choreography that reveals all the psychological nuances of the characters.
