Serge Diaghilev and his World:

A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s
Ballets Russes

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Aurora’s Wedding (also known as Le Mariage de la Belle au Bois Dormant), a twenty-minute, one-act version of the court scenes from the ill-fated production of The Sleeping Princess. Aurora’s Wedding was performed more than 200 times until 1929. Bronislava Nijinska danced the part of the Siamese Butterfly. (Aurora’s Wedding: music by Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky, partly reorchestrated by Igor Stravinsky; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois, with additional costumes by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Marius Petipa, arranged and with additional dances by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on May 18,1922, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.)
<em>Aurora’s Wedding</em> (also known as <em>Le Mariage de la Belle au Bois Dormant</em>), a twenty-minute, one-act version of the court scenes from the ill-fated production of <em>The Sleeping Princess. Aurora’s Wedding</em> was performed more than 200 times until 1929. Bronislava Nijinska danced the part of the Siamese Butterfly. (<em>Aurora’s Wedding:</em> music by Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky, partly reorchestrated by Igor Stravinsky; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois, with additional costumes by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Marius Petipa, arranged and with additional dances by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on May 18,1922, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.)