Die Schneekönigin
Director: Michael Corder
Choreographer: Michael Corder
Based on: Hans Christian Andersen‘s fairy tale
Music by: Sergei Prokofiev
Seen on: 17.1.2016
Plot:
The Snow Queen has a new mirror. But instead of reflecting her beauty in eternal winter, the mirror shows her Gerda and Kay who live in a small village together with Gerda’s grandmother. It’s springtime and they’re happily in love. The Snow Queen shatters the mirror in anger and decides to take revenge on the two of them.
The Snow Queen is one of my favorite fairy tales by Andersen and when I saw that they’d perform a ballet of it – with music by Prokofiev no less – I knew that I wanted to see it. And it was a very nice evening, even though I can’t recommend it without hesitation.