Choreographer
Jean-Christophe Maillot

Music
Extracts from Tchaikovsky :
Sleeping Beauty (Kirov Orchestra/Valery Gergiev)
Romeo and Juliet (Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado)

Performers
The beauty : Bernice Coppieters
Prince : Chris Roelandt
King : Nicolas Kahn
Queen : Carole Pastorel
Lilas, the fairy : Paola Cantalupo
Carabosse, the Queen Mother : Gaëtan Morlotti
King's father : Pascal Molat
Costumes : Philippe Guillotel
Sets : Ernest Pignon-Ernest


This ballet for Monte Carlo in 2002 by Jean-Christophe Maillot - who won a Nijinsky prize for the choreography - puts some familiar music by Tchaikovsky in a new guise, basing its story on the Charles Perrault fairytale La belle au bois dormant - better known in English as The Sleeping Beauty.