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The snow queen

ABRAHAMSEN

BSOREC 1002

Hans Abrahamsen‘s is a dark piece that cleaves closely to the original Hans Christian Andersen story. This production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, recorded in Munich in 2019 in an English version adapted by Amanda Holden from the original Danish, takes it to a new level of complexity and darkness. Director Andreas Kriegenburg has added additional avatars of the children Gerda and Kay

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