The Royal Ballet rehearse The Sleeping Beauty #WorldBalletDay 2019

The Royal Ballet rehearse The Sleeping Beauty as part of #WorldBalletDay 2019. Fumi Kaneko as the Lilac Fairy and Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Luca Acri, Anna Rose O’Sullivan, James Hay, Mayara Magri, Benjamin Ella, Yuhui Choe, Kevin Emerton, Claire Calvert, Calvin Richardson, Nicol Edmonds as Fairies and Cavaliers rehearse The Sleeping Beauty with coaching from Christopher Carr, Gary Avis and Samantha Raine and accompanied by pianist Paul Stobart. The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden. Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful Princess Aurora in the first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived by then Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason and Christopher Newton, returning Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glitterin