BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 46: Sleeping Beauty - Prom 46 - Part 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook. Fresh from his broadcast cycle of the Mahler symphonies, Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's delicate and richly romantic ballet Sleeping Beauty. A perennial favourite with children and adults alike, it tells of a beautiful princess betwitched by an evil spell and eventually awakened by the kiss of a handsome prince. London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Act 1.