Sleeping Beauty
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a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
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“Sleeping Beauty”
“Sleeping Beauty”A fairy tale from the collection of Charles Perrault, about a beautiful princess cast into a deep sleep through a jealous fairy's curse. Sleeping Beauty is awakened at last by the kiss of a prince.
Sleeping Beauty
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a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
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(italics) the fairy tale itself.
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(italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.
“Sleeping Beauty”
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A world premiere by Gregory Spears casts a veil of dream-like haunting over the story of Sleeping Beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
But within a matter of years, he is appearing on stage in Sleeping Beauty.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
A young Roffman, who was always more Team Snow White than Sleeping Beauty when it came to battles for classic Disney princess dominance, was confused and starstruck.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
Ulmer, via his company Mousetrappe Media, collaborated with Disney on the experience, designing projection mapping that could be seen on Sleeping Beauty Castle and elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
I have theater-sized posters from the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
“Sleepers Awake” by Gregory Spears, given its world premiere by Opera Philadelphia at the Academy of Music on Wednesday, turns “Sleeping Beauty” on its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
On a recent morning, Lindsay Schulte put “Sleeping Beauty” on the television and laid Brynn on a blanket on the kitchen counter.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
While his animation credits — “Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “101 Dalmatians” — include some of the medium’s foundational texts, Crump wasn’t a star in the department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
“Of Love and Rage,” Alexei Ratmansky’s story ballet based on a romance novel from Greek antiquity, is having a “Sleeping Beauty” moment.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
The secluded princess of these stories may have been primarily akin to the heroine of the “Sleeping Beauty” tales, but no special significance appears now to be attributable to her isolation.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
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