Comments on: The Sleeping Beauty, Scottish Ballet review at Edinburgh Festival Theatre

By: Forloppin

Forloppin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:54:47 +0000

The blog gives an excellent description, overview and balanced critique of Sleeping Beauty at which I too spent an enjoyable evening at Festival Theatre yesterday evening. I agree that the wedding scene included too many solo performances and is it indeed the case that such performances are prefexed by the ballet itself when there seems to be a good deal of flexibility shown within other scenes. Apologies if my lack of ballet knowledge makes this an ill conceived opinion. My greatest enjoyment was during the 16th birthday scene when Aurora dances with each and all of the suitors. A joy to watch and listen. Thank you to all concerned.

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By: John B

John B — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:09:56 +0000

We saw Sleeping Beauty in Aberdeen yesterday and thought this blog really captured our views as well.
Certainly, the number of solos and duets are prefixed by the ballet but they did go on and on and … Was that a problem with the ballet or the performers or Paige’s contribution? That being said, we had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and would recommend anyone to go.
Fittingly, the loudest applause of the evening came for the Conductor of the Orchestra who, once again, performed magnificently.

By: Sirio

Sirio — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:40:55 +0000

Hi,

I’m a frequent reader of your blog and wanted to thank you for that! I also wanted to comment on The Sleeping Beauty a coulple of things. Just wanted to point out that classical ballets have a fixed coreography which leaves little space to variations. Of course there can be interpretations and I think that the Scottish ballet made a great job in trying to put a pint of modernity in the ballet but the variations are just what they are. This is just to say that it doesn’t really make sense to say as a critic that the wedding “went on too long: there were a few too many solo performances”, because the number of solo performances is prefixed by the ballet itself. Apart from that I do agree with your critic, it was a beautiful performance and very friendly to not experts in my opinion so congratulations to the Scottish ballet!