Classical Ballet Stories 3

Explore the rich narratives, historical context, and artistic brilliance behind ballet's greatest works, from romantic classics to revolutionary masterpieces.

Sleeping Beauty ballet - Princess Aurora's grand classical ballet

The Sleeping Beauty

Explore Petipa's choreographic masterpiece bringing the beloved fairy tale to spectacular life with magnificent music by Tchaikovsky.

Awaken the Story
Spartacus ballet - the slave gladiator who defied Rome

Spartacus

Experience the epic tale of a Thracian gladiator who dared to defy the might of Rome, in Grigorovich's thunderous Bolshoi masterpiece set to Khachaturian's legendary score.

Join the Uprising
Le Spectre de la Rose ballet - Nijinsky and Karsavina in the 1911 production

Le Spectre de la Rose

A young girl returns from her first ball and dozes in her armchair - until the spirit of the rose she carried drifts in through the window to dance with her, before vanishing in ballet's most famous leap.

Follow the Dream
Swan Lake ballet - Odette as the Swan Queen in white tutu

Swan Lake

Discover the most iconic of all ballets - the eternal love story of Prince Siegfried and the enchanted Swan Queen Odette, forever bound by Rothbart's curse.

Enter the Swan Kingdom
La Sylphide ballet - Ethereal romantic ballet with winged sylph

La Sylphide

Follow a Scottish farmer enchanted by a magical sylph - an ethereal spirit beyond his reach - in this founding work of the Romantic era that gave birth to the white tutu.

Chase the Spirit
Sylvia ballet - Delibes' mythological nymph of Diana

Sylvia

Join the warrior huntress of Diana as love and duty collide in this mythological ballet set to Delibes' glittering score - a work Tchaikovsky himself called an inspiration.

Hunt with Diana
The Talisman ballet - Petipa's oriental fantasy tale

The Talisman

Discover this long-forgotten Petipa spectacle of heavenly kingdoms and earthly passion, where a celestial ring holds the power to bridge worlds between gods and mortals.

Claim the Talisman