Sydney Opera House, 21 November 2025. David McAllister’s decade-old production of The Sleeping Beauty returns, and from the first chord it is clear this is no children’s fairy tale but a glittering allegory of absolutist order. Premiered in 1890 by …
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Full of youthful vibrancy, this production is fresh. It has been in the Australian Ballet repertoire since 1974, though has not been performed for twenty years.
Technically the dancing was superb, and the Orchestra under the baton of …
The Australian Ballet are currently at the Sydney Opera House presenting Peter Wright’s 1990 Birmingham Royal Ballet version, which has been in the repertoire since 2007. It is a different version to the Royal Ballet one by Wright, filmed for …