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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). Voiced by Mary Costa, Aurora is the only child of King Stefan and Queen Leah.
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
From left to right: the forest animals, the Goons, Maleficent, Diablo, Prince Phillip, Princess Aurora, Flora, Queen Leah, Fauna, Merryweather, King Stefan, King Hubert, Samson, and the lackey. The following are fictional characters in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty and related media.
Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.
As Merryweather is about to give Aurora the gift of happiness, [1] Maleficent makes her appearance and curses the princess to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Merryweather softens the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss.
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The Queen gently persuades him to spare the innocent citizens, and he agrees. An elaborate waltz is performed and Princess Aurora arrives. [15] [16] She is introduced to four suitors by her doting parents. Aurora and the suitors perform the famous Rose Adagio. [17] Presently, a cloaked stranger appears and offers a gift to the princess: a spindle.
The franchise's titular protagonist, Aurora, is part of the characters in the Disney Princess franchise. [12] The main antagonist of the franchise, Maleficent , is included as a regular character of the Disney Villains franchise, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] while her sidekick raven Diablo also has minor recurring appearances in said franchise.