ABT'S THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, MET OPERA HOUSE, NYC, MAY 30, 1998

...With her speedy leaps and turns and her unshakable balances, Nina Ananiashvili was a confident Princess Aurora whose movements possessed such clarity that they shone with diamantine brilliance. Julio Bocca turned Prince Desire into an ardent hero. He and Ms. Ananiashvili were in total harmony in a grandly scaled wedding pas de deux that became a dance of triumph...