The Moscow Festival Ballet presents leading dancers from across the Russias in what is often considered the finest achievement of the Classical ballet. Sleeping Beauty is a grandiose and refined blending of the traditional mime, expressive pas d'action and spectacular divertissements in a lavish theatrical setting. Music by Tchaikovsky, this fairy tale replete with a king and queen, fairies both good and evil, a beautiful princess and dream prince, magical stage effects, and courtly splendor, lends itself perfectly to a full afternoon of "beauty."