Our annual visit to the New Theatre in Oxford for a new production of English National Ballet's The Snow Queen". Not as enjoyable as last year's Alice in Wonderland, it was still pretty wonderful. Taken from Hans Christian Andersen's winter story of the same name, the ballet contrasts the warm colourful village with the icy palace of the Snow Queen, all silver and sparkly.
My favourite pieces were the dancing of the gypsies and the wolves, but especially that of the Snow Queen herself, a cut above the rest. Alison especially likes listening and watching the orchestra, and from row 5, it is some experience. They are a mighty big bunch of terrific musicians playing a great score by Prokofiev.
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