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Hans Abrahamsen has been writing music on the snow theme for many years now, surrounded by terms such as “winter and transience, fairy tales and dreams”; his chamber orchestra piece Schnee (2006–2008) forms the centrepiece of a body of work that will mark a new highpoint with the premiere of his first opera, The Snow Queen, in winter 2019 at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Although strictly planned, his music sounds both flexible and agile: “First I design the structure to then see what might be in it.” Beginning with the musical canon structure of the composition, in close artistic cooperation with architect and visual artist Alexandros Tsolakis, Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning designs a world that gets to grips with the interactions of associated principles: Question and answer, chaos and structure, impulse and echo, hesitation and expectation. While above all, time ticks as endless experience.