A FAIRY-TALE CHRISTMAS
About the concert
Join us for an enchanting Christmas fairy tale as Odense Symfoniorkester, together with actors, a large children’s choir and skilled dancers, brings H.C. Andersen’s beloved stories to life with music, song and magic! In this year’s family Christmas concert we meet the boy Kaj, who has lost his faith in fairy tales – and perhaps in Christmas too. One night Kaj is whirled into the storybook by a little nisse, and soon he finds himself in a changed fairy-tale world where darkness spreads, the stories fall apart, and the Snow Queen threatens to freeze everything solid. To save both the fairy tales and himself, Kaj must find the vanished dancer – and rediscover the joy of imagination and Christmas, so that he can safely return home to his family. Along the way he meets Clumsy Hans, the Steadfast Tin Soldier, the Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Match Girl – and many more familiar characters from H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales. The story is interwoven with a number of newly written songs sung by skilled soloists and a large children’s choir. A true Christmas story for everyone who believes that we need fairy tales. The production is staged by 73 musicians, soloists, dancers and a fairy-tale nisse choir of 250 children.
Programme
Performers
- Musik: Morten Gildberg-Hansen
- Historie: Marie Markvard Andersen
- Iscenesættelse: Lasse Winkler
- Solist: Mikkel Moltke Hvilsom
- Solist: Kathrine Lemmeke Madsen
- Solist: Matilde Zeuner
- Solist: Mathias Niclasen
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