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Carlotta Brianza and Pavel Gerdt as Princess Aurora and Prince Désiré in the 1890 première of the Sleeping Beauty. Carolina Alice Brianza was born in Milan to Agostino Brianza and Elena Rivolta. [2] She had a younger brother, Arthur Mario Brianza (1867–1944). [3] [a] Brianza studied at the ballet school of La Scala under Carlo Blasis. [5]
[40] Similarly, Refinery29 ranked Princess Aurora the fourth most feminist Disney Princess because, "Her aunts have essentially raised her in a place where women run the game." [ 41 ] Despite being featured prominently in Disney merchandise , "Aurora has become an oft-forgotten princess", and her popularity pales in comparison to those of ...
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based on Charles Perrault 's 1697 fairy tale, the production was supervised by Clyde Geronimi, and was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark. Featuring the voices of Mary Costa ...
Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, [1][2][3] is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions ' animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959). Originally voiced by singer Mary Costa, Aurora is the only child of King Stefan and Queen Leah. An evil fairy named Maleficent seeks revenge for not being invited to Aurora's ...
Fairy godmother. Poster for Jules Massenet 's Cendrillon (based on Perrault's Cinderella) showing the titular character's fairy godmother. In fairy tales, a fairy godmother (French: fée marraine) is a fairy with magical powers who acts as a mentor or parent to someone, in the role that an actual godparent was expected to play in many societies.
Jezebel is introduced into the biblical narrative as a Phoenician princess, the daughter of Ithobaal I, king of Tyre (1 Kings 16:31 says she was "Sidonian", which is a biblical term for Phoenicians in general). [11] According to genealogies given in Josephus and other classical sources, she was the great-aunt of Dido, Queen of Carthage. [11]
t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (/ ˈhiːliəs, - ɒs /; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining").
Tithonus has been taken by the allegorist to mean ‘a grant of a stretching-out’ (from teinō and ōnė), a reference to the stretching-out of his life, at Eos’s plea; but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day [2] and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.