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READ ABOUT THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

Books

Beaumont, Cyril W.
Complete Book of Ballets, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1938, rev. London, 1951.
Excellent description of the 1921 Diaghilev revival.

Bland, Alexander
The Royal Ballet: The First Fifty Years, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1981.
Good recountings of the various RB stagings of the work.

Legat, Nikolai
The Story of the Russian School, translated by Paul Dukes, London, 1932.
Backstage at the Maryinsky!

Smakov, Gennady
"Marius Petipa and the Creation of The Sleeping Beauty" in One Hundred Years of Russian Ballet, ed. Nancy van Norman Baer, New York, 1989.

Wiley, Ronald John
Tchaikovsky's Ballets: "Swan Lake," "Sleeping Beauty," "Nutcracker," Clarendon, Oxford, 1985.
A terrific resource! Highly recommended!

 

Periodicals

Brown, David
"Tchaikovsky's Ballets: The Sleeping Beauty", Dance Now 2, Summer 1993, pp. 34-41.

Krasovskaya, Vera
"Marius Petipa and The Sleeping Beauty", translated by Cynthia Read, Dance Perspectives, #49, 1972

Maynard, Olga
"The Sleeping Beauty: An Historical Survey," Dance Magazine, December 1972, pp. 43-66.