ASCHENBRÖDEL

In the organizer's words:

The story of Cinderella, who becomes the bride of the coveted prince despite all the malice of her stepmother and the bullying attempts of her stepsisters, is one of the most famous and optimistic fairy tales in the world: at a magnificent ball, to which she was absolutely not to be taken, Cinderella outshines everyone else through helpful magic, and the prince, who is actually unwilling to marry, falls in love with the beautiful stranger. She is finally recognized by the loving prince through her lost dancing shoe, and there is a happy ending.

Whose music could be better suited to the story of Cinderella and her dance to happiness and love than that of Johann Strauss, the Waltz King? When he died in 1899, he left behind a fragment of his ballet "Cinderella", which is inexplicably still awaiting a lasting rediscovery. Ballet director and choreographer Karl Alfred Schreiner creates his version of the ballet fairy tale for the whole family to Straussʼ enchanting music as a dreamlike evening with fairies, magical animals and a pair of lovers whose imagination is stronger than social conventions and envy.