It is not possible to imagine classical ballet without the music of Tchaikovsky. The scores of his three full length ballets provide the dramatic impetus and emotional underpinning of the works. None more so than The Sleeping Beauty, written in 1893, the most perfectly wrought of his scores; described as ‘classical in its restraint, especially compared with the hyper-romanticism of Swan Lake’.
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