On her 16th birthday, Princess Aurora pricks herself on a distaff and falls sound asleep. Prince Désiré goes hunting, a Fairy shows him a vision of the sleeping Princess, he dances with her still ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Sleeping Beauty” is one of those stories that beats the odds. It’s a fairy tale, after all, not so complicated and full of fantastic plot twists, driven by ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company wrapped up its season with two weeks of Peter Martins’s “The Sleeping Beauty,” a flurry of debuts and four promotions.