A Folk Tale
Choreography · August Bournonville (1854)
music by Niels W. Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann (Gade composed the folk-inflected music for Acts I and III; Hartmann composed the darker, character-driven music for Act II's troll scenes)
On the eve of her wedding to the nobleman Ove, the vain and spoiled Birthe reveals herself to be a changeling — a troll swapped at birth for the true noble child, Hilda, who was raised among the trolls and elves. Ove is lured into the elf-hill by the elf-maidens and falls under a spell, while Hilda, sensing she doesn't belong among the trolls, dreams of her true origins and flees their world. After Hilda breaks Ove's enchantment and Birthe's troll nature is exposed, the two changelings are restored to their rightful places, and Hilda and Ove are united in marriage.
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