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Sleeping Beauty (other)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a classic fairy tale. Sleeping Beauty or ''variant'', may also refer to: Film * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1930 film), a Soviet film directed by Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1935 film), an American cartoon in the Puppetoon series by George Pal, included in ''The Puppetoon Movie'' * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942 film), an Italian film * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959 film), an American animated film from Walt Disney Pictures ** Aurora (Disney), the title character of the Disney film ** ''Sleeping Beauty'' (franchise), a Disney media franchise that began in 1959 with the release of ''Sleeping Beauty'' * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1955 film), a 1955 West German film directed by Fritz Genschow * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1973 film) or ''Some Call It Loving'', a drama by James B. Harris * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1987 film), a film starring Tahnee Welch * ''Sleeping Beauties'' (film), a 1999 American comedy film * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (2010 film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty
''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awoken by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to waken when the princess does. The earliest known version of the tale is found in the narrative ''Perceforest'', written between 1330 and 1344. Another was published by Giambattista Basile in his collection titled ''The Pentamerone'', published posthumously in 1634 and adapted by Charles Perrault in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' in 1697. The version collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was one orally transmitted from the Perrault. The Aarne-Thompson classification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day-Dream
"The Day-Dream" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty". It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performance for a private gathering with Tennyson starring as the Prince. "The Day-Dream" discusses the nature of sleeping and of dreaming, especially in relation to individuals that would want to escape from reality. The poem also compares the act of poetry with dreaming and asserts that the two are the same. Background Tennyson originally published "The Sleeping Beauty" in his 1830 collection of poems.Hill 1971 p. 544 In 1833, Tennyson's close friend Arthur Hallam died. The death greatly affected both Tennyson and his sister Emily, and he kept away from society as he dealt with the pain. By mid-summer 1834, they slowly began to participate together in social events once again. At one occasion, Tennyson, Emily, and their sister Mary were invited to visit friends at Dorking and then travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Planché Bibliography
This is a list of the theatrical works of the nineteenth-century British playwright James Robinson Planché James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat .... Key Works References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Planche, James Bibliographies by writer James Planche bibliography Bibliographies of British writers Dramatist and playwright bibliographies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco
(The sleeping beauty in the woods) is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Gian Bistolfi based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". The first version of this opera, with the title ''La bella addormentata nel bosco'', premiered in the in Rome on 13 April 1922. It was a version written for the Italian marionettist , who was director of a marionette company called ''Teatro dei Piccoli'' (''Theater for Children''). The play was interpreted by marionettes, but it was accompanied by orchestra and singers. The cast of the première included the soprano Cisse Vaughan and the mezzo-soprano Evelina Levi. The performance was a success, with "many curtain calls for the composer", and was judged as an "art jewel". A revised version was performed at the , Turin, on 9 April 1934, as ''La bella dormente nel bosco''. The cast included Graziella Gazzera Valle (Princess), Magda Piccarolo (Blue Fairy, Nightingale), Angelina Rossetti (Spindle, Duchess, Cat), M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dornröschen
''Dornröschen'' (''Sleeping Beauty'') is a 1902 opera by Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto, based on the story of Sleeping Beauty, was by fairy tale writer Elisabeth Ebeling and Bertha Lehrmann-Filhés, mother of , with a dialogue version by Ralf Eger who worked on Franz Lehár's operettas such as '' Der Zarewitsch''. Premiere ''Dornröschen'' premiered on 11 December 1902 at the Stadttheater in Frankfurt-am-Main, with Humperdinck conducting. Principal roles with premiere cast members: Recordings Complete opera * ''Dornröschen'' – Brigitte Fassbaender (speaking role, Dämonia, the wicked fairy), Christina Landshamer (Rosa, Queen of the fairies), Kristiane Kaiser (Sleeping Beauty), Tobias Haaks (Reinhold), Stephanie Hampl (Morphina), Anna Borchers (Quecksilber), Miriam Clark (the Sun), Brigitte Bayer (a forget-me-not), Guibee Yang (a rose), Wolfgang Klose (Vogt of the Ancestral Castle), Jerzy May (Ringold), Barbara Malisch (Armgart). Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Lecocq)
''La belle au bois dormant'' (The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods) is an opéra comique in three acts with music by Charles Lecocq and words by Albert Vanloo and Georges Duval (journalist), Georges Duval. It is a retelling, with modifications, of the fairy tale ''Sleeping Beauty''. The princess wakes from her long sleep and falls in love not with Prince Charming but with his companion, but all is well in the end. The opera opened at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, in February 1900, and had a run of 28 performances. Background and premiere By the 1890s Lecocq's most successful days were behind him.Lamb, Andrew"Lecocq, (Alexandre) Charles" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 29 December 2018 In the 1870s his successes had included ''Giroflé-Girofla'' and ''La fille de Madame Angot''. He had written very popular operas in the early 1880s, but of his later comic pieces only ''Ninette (opera), Ninette'' (1896) ran for more than the 100 perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Carafa)
''La belle au bois dormant'' (; ) is an opera in three acts by Michele Carafa to a French libretto by Eugène de Planard after the tale by Charles Perrault. It was first performed on 2 March 1825 at the Salle Le Peletier of Paris Opera. The famous tenor Adolphe Nourrit created the role of the Prince. Choreography was by Pierre Gardel, and set design by Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri. Main roles *Aurora, soprano *The Queen, soprano *The Prince, tenor *Carabosse, baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ... *King Florestan, baritone References External links * Operas by Michele Carafa French-language operas Opéras féeries 1825 operas Operas Works based on Sleeping Beauty Operas based on fairy tales Operas based on works by Charles Perrault {{French-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Margolin
Phillip Margolin (born 1944) is an American writer of legal thrillers. Biography Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, from American University in Washington, D.C., he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia until 1967. He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1970, and has worked for 25 years as a criminal defense attorney, an occupation of choice inspired by the ''Perry Mason'' books. He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals. He published his first story, a short story titled "The Girl in the Yellow Bikini", in 1974, and became a full-time writer in 1996. He has written 12 books as of January 2007. He lists as his favourite writer Joseph Conrad, and among his favourite books ''War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy and ''Stone City'' by Mitchell Smith. Philip Margolin was married to Doreen Stamm in 1968. They had two children, Ami and Daniel. Doreen, also an attorney, died from cancer in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauties (novel)
''Sleeping Beauties'' is a novel by Stephen King and his son Owen King, released on September 26, 2017. The book was first mentioned during a promotional appearance on the CBC radio program '' q''. Of the novel, Stephen King stated, "Owen brought me this dynamite idea and I've collaborated a couple of times with Joe. I'm not going to say what the idea is because it's too good." The novel was officially announced in June 2016 and is said to take place in a women's prison in West Virginia during a strange mystical occurrence that causes all the women in the world to fall asleep. An excerpt was published on September 1, 2017 by ''Entertainment Weekly'' in their special ''The Ultimate Guide to Stephen King'' issue. Plot In the impoverished town of Dooling, part of the fictional Tri-Counties region of Appalachia, a bizarre murder occurs when two men running a meth lab out of their mobile home are beaten to death by a mysterious woman, who then sets fire to the lab before allowing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sleeping Beauty (novel)
''The Sleeping Beauty'' is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, published in 2010 as the fifth book of the ''Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms'' series. As in the previous book, ''The Snow Queen'', characters from earlier books are either mentioned or appear as secondary characters Background ''The Sleeping Beauty'' was written by Mercedes Lackey as the fifth installment in her ''Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms'' series. Plot summary Lily is the godmother to the Kingdom of Eltaria, which is quite wealthy due to its vast number of mines. After its queen dies, Lily takes on the appearance of an evil sorceress, with the name "Sable", and marries its king in name only, so that he won't be trapped into marrying a real evil sorceress and Princess Rosamund won't have a wicked stepmother. However, this doesn't stop the Tradition from focusing on Eltaria, particularly on Rosa, who ends up with two Traditional paths tangled up and directed at her: the Beauty Asleep and Snowskin. While her outer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
''The Sleeping Beauty Quartet'' is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises ''The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'', ''Beauty's Punishment'', ''Beauty's Release'', and ''Beauty's Kingdom'', first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of ''Sleeping Beauty''. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia and pony play. In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. ''The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'' was read by actress Amy Brenneman. ''Beauty's Punishment'' was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty (novel)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald. Plot Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Adaptation KCRW KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programm ... adapted ''Sleeping Beauty'' for a radio play in 1996. References 1973 American novels Lew Archer (series) Novels by Ross Macdonald Alfred A. Knopf books 1973 Canadian novels {{Canada-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
