Name: Sleeping Beauty
Start: 2025-12-07T17:00:00
Location: Stadthalle Göttingen

Nicholas Milton

Judith Kara

Art La Danse

Göttinger Symphonieorchester

The fact that Pyotr Tchaikovsky himself considered his ballet "Sleeping Beauty" his best – having also composed "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker" – elevates this work to perhaps the finest ballet music of all time. The original title of the fairy tale in Charles Perrault's version, which translates roughly as "The Sleeping Beauty," makes clear what the literary source is about: a 15-year-old girl falls into a sleep that lasts almost a century. Towards the end of his life, Tchaikovsky created a somewhat impressionistic work of dreams, dangers, longings, and passions, which inherently invites one to dance. The ballet school "Art la danse" brings the joy of this to the stage of the Stadthalle.