Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song) Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song) "Once Upon a Dream" is a song written for the 1959 animated musical fantasy film "Sleeping Beauty" produced by Walt Disney. Its lyrics were written by Jack Lawrence, and its music by Sammy Fain. The song's melody is based on the "Grande valse villageoise" (nicknamed "The Garland Waltz"), from the 1890 ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "Once Upon a Dream" serves as the film's main theme, and as the love theme of Princess Aurora and Prince Philip. It is performed in the film by a chorus as an overture and
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) Kong Disneyland opened in 2005, also with a Sleeping Beauty Castle, nearly replicating Disneyland's original design. "Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant" at Disneyland Paris is a variant of Sleeping Beauty Castle. The version found at Disneyland Paris is much more reminiscent of the film's artistic direction. The "Château" features an animatronic dragon, imagineered to look like Maleficent's dragon form, is found in the lower level dungeon – "La Tanière du Dragon". The building also contains "La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant", a gallery of displays which illustrate the story of Sleeping Beauty in tapestries, stained