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.

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).

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