Aurora Holding a Heart Scepter coloring page

About this coloring page

Aurora with a scepter is the princess of Sleeping Beauty, the Disney movie released in 1959. The story is the classic fairy tale of a cursed princess who falls into a deep sleep, but the film has an unusual secret: its music comes from a Russian ballet.

In the 1800s, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the score for the ballet The Sleeping Beauty, which premiered in Saint Petersburg. Disney adapted several of its melodies for the movie and added lyrics to some of them. The song Aurora sings in the forest with Prince Phillip grew out of a waltz from that ballet.

That is why the film feels so elegant and grand. The castle scenes, the dances and the arrival of the fairies play almost like a stage performance. Lots of kids get their first taste of classical music from this movie without even realizing it.

The film also gives us the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, who raise Aurora in a cottage in the woods, and the terrifying Maleficent, one of Disney's most famous villains. The ballet itself is still performed on stages around the world.

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