The Daughter of the Snows

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The Daughter of the Snows (AKA Snegurochka) is a "fantastic ballet" in 3 acts/5 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus. Libretto by Marius Petipa, derived from the Russian fairy-tale Snegurochka by Alexander Ostrovsky, which the writer based on a Norwegian legend.

First presented by the Imperial Ballet on January 7/19 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1879 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Ekaterina Vazem (as the Snow Maiden).

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• 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.