''The Daughter of the Snows'' (also known as ''Snegurochka'' or ''La Fille des neiges'') is a
ballet in three acts and five scenes, with choreography by
Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters an ...
and music by
Ludwig Minkus. The libretto by Marius Petipa is based on the play ''
The Snow Maiden'' by
Alexander Ostrovsky, inspired by a Russian folk fairy tale about
Snegurochka
Snegurochka (diminutive) or Snegurka ( rus, Снегу́рочка (diminutive), Снегу́рка, p=sʲnʲɪˈgurətɕkə, snʲɪˈgurkə), or The Snow Maiden, is a character in Russian fairy tales.
This character has no apparent roots in ...
from the folklore collection by
Alexander Afanasyev.
The ballet premiered on 7 January 1879 at the
St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in
St. Petersburg, Russia by the
Imperial Ballet.
Principal dancers:
Ekaterina Vazem
Yekaterina Ottovna Vazem (born Matilda Vazem; russian: Екатери́на Отто́вна Ва́зем; 25 January 1848, Moscow – 14 December 1937, Leningrad) aka Ekaterina Vazemwas a Russian prima ballerina and instructor, whose most noted ...
(as the Snow Maiden).
Ballets by Marius Petipa
Ballets by Ludwig Minkus
1879 ballet premieres
Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg
Snegurochka
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