Title: A Deeply Sleeping Beauty
Product review: An earnest effort that maybe takes itself too seriously. Lacks the humor, grace, and deft touches of the more recent Royal Ballet staging with CojocaruTchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet), not to mention the brilliant clarity and rich color of the Blu-Ray disc. I find the pace sluggish (has classical ballet conducting slowed down in recent years?). The dancing of the corps de ballet and the principals is only average. The non-dancing Lilac Fairy of the original production is certainly historically authentic, but I miss the lively dancing Lilac that soon replaced her. Almost any Russian production from Bolshoi or Kirov/Mariinsky gives me more pleasure (and brisker tempos).To me the sets are ponderous and dark, and the voluminous costumes--well, the performers look more upholstered than costumed. I could swear there's a Balinese or Indonesian influence in the ballerinas' headdresses--beautiful but a bit incongruous. Will not watch this disc a second time.
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