product id: 1978 Composer/Artist: Davies, Peter Maxwell Arrangement: Orchestra, High Voice Product type: Instrumental work Media: Sheet Music Pages: 506 Genre: Post-1900 Language: English Expected shipping time: 14 days Price: 54.95 euro A ballet in two acts which premiered on the stage of the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, on 14th March 1991. Based on the true story of the sister of George III, Caroline Mathilde (1751-1775), who at the age of 15 was sent to Denmark to marry the 17-year-old eccentric and schizophrenic Danish King, Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage, the King's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee, the King's influential physician, which leads to their arrest, his execution and her exile, at the age of 20, separated from her two young children. Written for full symphony orchestra and female chorus.
Duration c. 2hrs 25mins. Song list Caroline Mathilde
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