The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) quality. "The Sleeping Beauty" is Tchaikovsky's longest ballet, lasting nearly four hours at full length (counting the intermissions). The complete score runs practically 3 hours. It is nearly always cut. At the premiere, Tsar Alexander III summoned Tchaikovsky to the imperial box. The Tsar made the simple remark 'Very nice,' which seemed to have irritated Tchaikovsky, who had likely expected a more favorable response. "The Royal Court": "The Fairies": Carabosse, the evil fairy "The Four Suitors": "The Prince's Hunting Party": "Fairy-Tale Characters": Setting Prologue (The Christening)<br>King Florestan XXIV and his Queen have welcomed their first child, Princess Aurora, and declare
Sleeping Beauty problem Beauty will be awakened, interviewed, and put back to sleep with an amnesia-inducing drug that makes her forget that awakening. A fair coin will be tossed to determine which experimental procedure to undertake: In either case, she will be awakened on Wednesday without interview and the experiment ends. Any time Sleeping Beauty is awakened and interviewed she will not be able to tell which day it is or whether she has been awakened before. During the interview Beauty is asked: "What is your credence now for the proposition that the coin landed heads?" This problem continues to produce ongoing debate.