The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66

​Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completed his second of three ballets in 1889. It was his second-longest work around 180 minutes, a prologue and three acts, and was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on 15 January 1890. It was quite well received. Tsar Alexander III was at the performance and complemented Tchaikovsky, and thereafter, paying him a substantial bonus. The Sleeping Beauty was adapted from Ivan Vsevolozhsky’s The Beauty Sleeping in the Forest, after the Brothers Grimm’s version of Perrault’s story La belle au bois dormant. The ballet was dedicated to Ivan Vsevolozhsky.

Here are four albums:

Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66. Neeme Jarvi with James Ehnes (violin) Robert deMaine (cello) and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Release Date: 3 Dec 2012. Label: Chandos.

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty. Mark Ermler with The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Release Date: 14 Dec 2021. Label: Sony.

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66. Mikhail Pletnev with Russian National Orchestra. Release Date: 1 Feb 1999. Label: Deutsche Grammophon.

​Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty & Symphony No. 4. Anatole Fistoulari with Paris Conservatoire Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Release Date: 15 Feb 2019. Label: Eloquence (Decca).

Reference: (2024). The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky Research. USA: Authors.
https://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/The_Sleeping_Beauty