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Description: | Leon Bakst designed this costume, worn by Carabosse, the Wicked Fairy, for Serge Diaghilev's lavish production of The Sleeping Princess that premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square in November 1921.
The Sleeping Princess was a full-length ballet based on the 19th-century favourite, The Sleeping Beauty. The choreography was by Marius Petipa and it was set to a version of Tchaikovsky's music for the The Sleeping Beauty reworked by Igor Stravinsky.
Although audiences enjoyed the ballet, the critics decried it for its popular approach, and it closed early. The production, which had six sets and 300 costumes, cost well over ��20,000 and Diaghilev lost a substantial amount of money because of its shortened run. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | 1921 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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