Blixen

Sat Sep 24 2022 at 08:00 pm to 10:45 pm

Copenhagen Opera House | Herlev

Det Kongelige Teater
Publisher/HostDet Kongelige Teater
Blixen
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Lad dig underholde og betage af Karen Blixens eventyrlige liv i den romantisk helaftensballet Blixen på Det Kongelige Teater.

Den danske forfatter Karen Blixen var et ikon, allerede mens hun levede. I Blixen bliver hendes begivenhedsrige liv fortalt i ballettens sprog. De fleste har sikkert set et fotografi af Karen Blixen – den spinkle skikkelse med de mørke og livskloge øjne. Blixen levede et liv præget af stor kærlighed og stor sorg, og hun var et sammensat menneske bag masken; på én gang højt respekteret kunstner, myndig kaffefarmer, moderne eventyrer og fin baronesse.
I balletten Blixen skildres hendes livshistorie – fra barndomsårene, hvor hun efter faderens selvmord vokser op i en kvindedomineret familie, over det ulykkelige ægteskab med halvfætteren Bror Blixen, årene på den kenyanske kaffefarm og den dramatiske forel­skelse i Denys Finch Hatton, frem til verdensberømmelsen og de sidste år på Rungstedlund.
Blixen er en stort anlagt ballet i tre akter med hele kompagniet på scenen, koreograferet af kongelig solodanser Gregory Dean, der også har skabt Askepot og De glemte børn til Den Kongelige Ballet. Blixen havde premiere i 2019 og blev sæsonens mest populære ballet. Nu kan den opleves i stort format på Operaens Store Scene.
Anbefales fra 12 år.
Tak til Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Fonde – OJD, der ved en donation har muliggjort opsætningen af Blixen.
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ENGLISH VERSION
Let yourself be captivated and entertained by Karen Blixen’s adventurous life in the all-evening romantic ballet Blixen at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Danish storyteller Karen Blixen was a legend in her lifetime. In Blixen, her eventful life is retold through the language of ballet. Many may be familiar with photographs of Karen Blixen – a slender figure with dark, wise eyes. Blixen lived a life of great passion and great sorrow. Behind her public visage, she was a complex human being; a highly respected artist, adept coffee farmer, modern adventurer and elegant baroness.
The Blixen ballet portrays her life from early childhood, growing up in a female-dominated family after her father’s suicide, and on to her unhappy marriage to her half-cousin, Bror Blixen, her years as a coffee farmer in Kenya, her dramatic love affair with Denys Finch Hatton, and finally to her world fame and last years of life at Rungstedlund in Denmark.
Blixen is a grand three-act ballet that stages the entire ballet company and is choreographed by Royal Principal Dancer Gregory Dean, who also created Cinderella and The Forgotten Children for the Royal Danish Ballet. Blixen premiered in 2019 and became the most popular ballet of the season. It can now be experienced in a grand staging at the Opera House Main Stage.
Recommended from the age of 12.
With thanks to Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Fonde – OJD for the donation that made possible this production of Blixen.
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Copenhagen Opera House, Ekvipagemestervej 10, 1438 København K,Copenhagen, Denmark, Herlev

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