Empress Eleonore Gonzaga the consort of Emperor Ferdinand II staged Vienna?s first ballet in 1622. From then on the new art form flourished. However it was exclusively practised by the nobility.
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With Alessandra Ferri one of the most influential personalities of the international ballet world of our time will take over the artistic direction of the ballet company which is organized as an independent joint venture of the Vienna State Opera and the Volksoper Vienna.
Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved classical ballets combining in a single work all the enchantment and virtuosity that ballet has to offer. The wicked fairy Carabosse curses Princess Aurora to prick her finger on a spindle and sleep away her life. Only a kiss from a prince can break the spell and awaken the sleeping beauty.
Ballet (French: [bal?]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.
The Vienna State Ballet is one of the most traditional and renowned dance institutions in the world and is at home as an independent working group at the Vienna State Opera and the Volksoper Wien.
Local artists have dominated ballet happenings in Vienna ever since although a string of singular personalities from abroad set highlights in Vienna time and time again ? among them the great Rudolf Nureyev.