Denmark's queen designs sets, costumes for fairytale ballet

AFP, July, 2007

COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Denmark's Queen Margrethe II has designed the sets and costumes for a ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale to premiere on Saturday in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens theatre, the park said Tuesday.

The ballet, inspired by the fairytale The Tinder Box, is the third show that the monarch has been involved in at the Tivoli theatre.

In 2001, Queen Margrethe designed the set and costumes for the ballet "L'amour dans la poubelle" (Love in the dustbin) based on three Andersen fairytales.

And in 2005, she also brought her talents to use for the ballet "Thumbelina", also an ...