The flute, oboe, and bells perform a call-and-response with the horn in one of this ballet's pieces, whose main melody is introduced by unison strings in E-flat.
The flute, oboe, and bells perform a call-and-response with the horn in one of this ballet's pieces, whose main melody is introduced by unison strings in E-flat. That is the Garland Waltz. A trombone plays occasional A-sharps behind a pizzicato string melody in this ballet's Breadcrumb Variation. As the first ballet she saw, this ballet inspired Anna Pavlova to become a dancer. Its first act sees the central character dance with four princes in the (*) Rose Adagio. In the prologue to this ballet, the main villain rips off the wig of the master of ceremonies, Catallabutte. In this ballet, during his daughter's sixteenth birthday party, King Florestan pardons a hag, and the gift of a spindle enacts the curse of death of the evil fairy Carabosse, which was changed by the Lilac Fairy to 100 years of slumber. For 10 points, name this Tchaikovsky ballet in which a prince awakens the title character with a kiss.
The flute, oboe, and bells perform a call-and-response with the horn in one of this ballet's pieces, whose main melody is introduced by unison strings in E-flat.
The Sleeping Beauty [accept The Sleeping Princess; accept Spyashchaya Krasavitsa]