Awakening desire in his audience

WHEN Cork City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty opens at Cork Opera House on Thursday, it’s probably safe to say the majority of the audience will be women.

They won’t miss a movement, or a rippling muscle. That’s because the Prince will be danced by Sergio Torrado, who caused a sensation partnering Natalie Portman in the film Black Swan two years ago.

Playing Aurora will be the exquisite Monica Fotescu-Uta, from the Dortmund Theatre Company, and there is likely to be a collective sigh of envy when she is awakened from her 100 years of sleep by the kiss of Spaniard Torrado, a favourite with the Royal New Zealand Ballet.