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The great Kirov Ballet has put on its detective hat to recreate the long-lost original “Sleeping Beauty.” “We will see almost every step as Tsar Alexander III saw it in 1890, almost every detail that the brilliant Marius Petipa choreographed to Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary music, and every design as the ballet’s ambitious originator, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, drew it.” – The Telegraph (London)