The Daughter of the Snows (ballet)
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The Daughter of the Snows (AKA Snegurochka) is a "fantastic" ballet in 3 Acts/5 Scenes, with music by Léon Minkus.
The ballet was premiered on January 7, 1879, at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre 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.
