Caroline Mathilde (ballet)

Caroline Mathilde is a two-act ballet to music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Its original choreographer was Flemming Flindt in 1991.

It tells the story of the eighteenth-century English princess Caroline Mathilde (sister of George III), who was sent to Denmark aged 15 to be married to the 17-year-old schizophrenic Danish King, Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage, the King's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee, the King's influential physician, which ultimately leads to their arrest, his execution and her exile at the age of 20, separated from her two young children.

As with Davies' earlier ballet, Salome, it was a commission by the Royal Danish Ballet. It was first performed on 14 March 1991 at the Kongelige Theater, Copenhagen. The orchestra was conducted by Markus Lehtinen.

Davies prepared two Concert Suites, each based on an act of the ballet.

References

Archived details of the ballet at Maxopus.com

Peter Maxwell Davies

Operas	Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968) Taverner (1972) The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977) The Lighthouse (1979) Resurrection (1987) The Doctor of Myddfai (1996) Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000) Kommilitonen! (2011)

Ballets	Caroline Mathilde (1991)

Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (1973) Symphony No. 2 (1980) Symphony No. 3 (1984) Symphony No. 4 (1989) Symphony No. 5 (1994) Symphony No. 6 (1996) Symphony No. 7 (2000) Symphony No. 8 (2001) Symphony No. 9 (2012) Symphony No. 10 (2013)

Other compositions	The Yellow Cake Revue (1980) Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1985) Strathclyde Concertos (1986–96) Naxos Quartets (2001–2007)

Related articles	Polystylism

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Caroline Mathilde (ballet)

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