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The last egg of the mother duck finally hatches and a duckling that none of the other animals in the duck pond understand comes out. What is its strange colour and shape, and is it any good at all?
The story of the Ugly Duckling is told by three bored pigeons who decide to play the whole adventure together. They dress up and get so much into the roles that they almost forget that it was just supposed to be a fun game...
In the PixiOpera The Ugly Duckling, the musical excerpts include Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute, Carl Nielsen's Maskarade, Peter Heise's Drot og Marsk, Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Emmerich Kálmán's The Princess of Czardas.
Actors
Signe Sneh Durholm
Pigeon 1, The Ugly Duckling, The Swan
Fritjof Fuglesang
Pigeon 2, Mother Duck, Anne the Duck, Wild Duck and Tickle Lily Legs
Louise Schrøder
Pianist, Pigeon 3
The team behind
Signe Sneh Durholm
Text and Idea
Tine Topsøe og Dorte Grannov Balslev
Dramaturgical adaptation
Tine Topsøe
Director
Gøje Rostrup
Set design and costumes
The Royal Danish Theatre's PixiPerformances are a fun and unpretentious introduction to the classical art forms of theatre, opera, acting, ballet and classical music. PixiOpera is an opera in mini format, made and told for children with songs and musical extracts from well-known opera titles, but with a new text.
