‘Belle au bois dormant, La’. One of Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé, the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, with a final section in which the heroine's children are rescued from their mother-in-law, an ogress.
La belle au bois dormant
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La belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) is an opera in three acts by Michele Carafa to a French libretto by François-Antonine-Eugène de Planard after the tale by Charles Perrault.
It was first performed on 2 March 1825 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. The famous tenor Adolphe Nourrit created the role of the Prince. Choreography was by Pierre Gabriel Gardel, and set design by Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri.
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