Step right into a world of romance, marvel, and grandeur as Ballet Arizona kicks off its 2025-2026 season with The Sleeping Magnificence Oct. 23 – 26 at Symphony Corridor, with dwell musical accompaniment from The Phoenix Symphony. Primarily based on the unique choreography by Marius Petipa with extra choreography by Ballet Arizona Inventive Director Daniela Cardim, The Sleeping Magnificence will likely be her first full size manufacturing with the corporate.
Gleaming with vivid shade and spilling over with fairies, princes and storybook allure, The Sleeping Magnificence unfolds like a rose. Paired with Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable rating, this beloved traditional will whisk you away right into a spellbinding world of marvel and delight.
The Sleeping Magnificence is a mesmerizing deal with with beautiful costumes and dazzling units that transport the viewers to a magical kingdom. The enchanting story is delivered to life by Princess Aurora, bewitched by the evil Carabosse and positioned right into a 100-year protecting sleep by the Lilac Fairy, to be woke up solely by real love’s kiss.
Rising abilities Isabella Website positioning and Leticia Endler, who awed audiences as Odette/Odile in final 12 months’s efficiency of Swan Lake, may also be dancing the principal position of Princess Aurora for the primary time. Aurora’s love curiosity, Prince Desiré (Prince Charming), will likely be carried out by audience-favorite dancers Helio Lima, Gabriel Wright, Ricardo Santos and Arizona native Ethan Worth.
“It’s a profound honor and pleasure to deliver The Sleeping Magnificence to life with Ballet Arizona,” mentioned Cardim. “This ballet is a radiant celebration of hope, magic, and the transformative energy of affection. We’ve got woven collectively custom and contemporary imaginative and prescient to create an expertise that may enchant audiences of all ages, inviting each coronary heart to dream and imagine in fairy tales as soon as extra.”
The Sleeping Magnificence will embrace the ultimate on-stage efficiency of firm dancer, Katelyn Might Kirchhofer, who is ready to retire after the concluding efficiency on Solar., Oct. 26 at 5:30 p.m. She’s going to carry out the position of Princess Aurora throughout her final efficiency with Ballet Arizona. Kirchhofer joined Ballet Arizona in 2021 and has had an unimaginable profession performing soloist and principal roles within the Valley, in addition to at Houston Ballet and The Sarasota Ballet of Florida.
“I’ve so many treasured reminiscences from the final 18 years, lots of which have come from being on stage with Ballet Arizona,” mentioned Kirchhofer. “I’ll cherish what has been and I look ahead to what’s to come back on the opposite facet of the curtain.”
Tickets for The Sleeping Magnificence vary from $36 – $172 and can be found now. Reductions are provided for seniors, school college students, energetic navy, and teams. For the very best tickets and costs, all the time buy immediately from Ballet Arizona at balletaz.org.
