Opera North

The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Grandfather Frost and Spring Beauty. Beautiful and warm, her beguiling exterior hides a tragic secret: her heart is made of ice which will melt if she ever succumbs to the warmth of human love.

Written at one of the happiest times in his life, Rimsky-Korsakov described The Snow Maiden as ‘a spring fairy-tale’, creating an opera of sheer enchantment from this popular Russian tale, graced with some of the composer’s most spontaneously lyrical music.

Directed by John Fulljames, Associate Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, this new production, believed to be the first professional staging in the UK in over 60 years, will make inventive use of video imagery to blend and contrast worlds of fantasy and modern day reality.