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This dress was designed by Alexandre Benois for Serge Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes. This ballet confines itself to the final part of Sleeping Beauty, the marriage feast of Aurora and her prince. Within the wedding guests are nobles, a retinue of fairies, the Bluebird and Little Red Riding Hood, who join the awakened Princess Aurora dancing with her new groom in an enchanted setting.

Her godmother simply touched her with a wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes turned into the most beautiful silver. She shone like jewels. Charles Perrault 1628-1703 Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.

Moved by Christian’s words, Roxane asks why he speaks so haltingly. Impatient, Cyrano thrusts Christian under the balcony and takes his place, still hidden in darkness. Speaking in a low voice, he confides in Roxane the things he has always longed to tell her. As Roxane becomes more and more hypnotized by Cyrano’s poetry, Christian cries out from beneath the balcony that he wants one kiss. “What?” says Roxane! ACT 3 SCENE VII CHRISTIAN: Come to my aid! CYRANO: Not I! CHRISTIAN: But I shall die, Unless at once I win back her fair favour. CHRISTIAN (seizing his arm): Oh,...

We love the Italian costume designer Piero Tosi here at The Vampire’s Wife. He is best known for his extensive work on many of the legendary Luchino Visconti’s films. He has dressed some of the world’s most impressively beautiful women including Sophia Loren (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 1963), Claudia Cardinale (The Leopard, 1963), Romy Schneider (Ludwig, 1973), Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter, 1974, The Damned, 1969) and Maria Callas (La Sonnambula, 1955). He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and has won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design twice. With his strong attention to detail, even the most...