English National Ballet - The Snow Queen
- Composer:
- Julien Philips
- Management:
- English National Ballet
- Cast:
- Daria Klimentova, Yosvani Ramos, Fernanda Oliveira
- Design:
- Mark Bailey
- Choreography:
- Michael Corder
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Usually associated with Christmas, Hans Christian Andersen's tale was always going to lend itself well to the glitter, dry ice and fairy lights of a sumptuous ballet. Michael Corder's dazzling production also features half a kilometre of Swarowski edging as well as thousands of individual stones incorporated into Mark Bailey's impressive set and costumes. However, Cordor's main achievement here is to do with his inspired and supremely intelligent re-reading of Prokofiev's last and least successful narrative ballet - The Stone Flower - thus conveniently resolving the problem of the surprising absence from the canon of a Snow Queen score...
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