The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) and Princess Aurora arrives. She is introduced to four suitors by her doting parents. Aurora and the suitors perform the famous Rose Adagio. Presently, a cloaked stranger appears and offers a gift to the princess: a spindle. Having never seen one before, Aurora curiously examines the strange object as her parents desperately try to intervene. As predicted, she pricks her finger. While initially appearing to recover quickly, she falls into a swoon and collapses. The cloaked stranger reveals herself to be Carabosse, who believes that her curse still stands and that the princess is dead. Once again, the Lilac Fairy
The House of the Sleeping Beauties releases of the year. The 2011 Australian film "Sleeping Beauty", directed by Julia Leigh, uses the central premise of "House of the Sleeping Beauties" as part of its main plotline, but reverses the viewpoint. The film contains a scene in which a university lecturer is presenting on a game of Go, a reference to Kawabata's 1951 novel "The Master of Go". The literary sources for the film "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) were acknowledged and discussed in the book "Sleeping Beauty" presented to the press at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 by Screen Australia and subsequently in many interviews. These sources included