The Daughter of the Snows
- The Daughter of the Snows
The Daughter of the Snows (AKA Snegurochka) is a "fantastic ballet" in 3 acts/5 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus. Libretto by Marius Petipa, derived from the Russian fairy-tale "Snegurochka" by Alexander Ostrovsky, which the writer based on a Norwegian legend.
The ballet premiered on January 7 1879, at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia by the Imperial Ballet.
The story of the ballet was based on the Russian Fairy-tale "Snegurochka", which also served as the subject for the play "The Snow Maiden" by Alexander Ostrovsky with music by Tchaikovsky in 1873. The subject was also used by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera of the same title in 1881.
Principal Dancers: Ekaterina Vazem (as the Snow Maiden).
Notes
*Ostrovsky's work also served as the basis for the subject of the 1873 play "The Snow Maiden", for which Tchaikovsky composed the incidental music, as well as the 1881 opera of the same title by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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