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Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty: a beginner’s guide in pictures
By happy chance, a handsome prince – known in some versions of the ballet as Prince Désiré and in others as Prince Florimund – is hunting in the forest when he wanders away from his friends and meets the Lilac Fairy. Pictured: David Hallberg as the Prince. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images