Ondine (ballet)

See also Ondine, ou La naïade for the ballet on the same theme by Pugni and Perrot

Ondine
Sarah Wildor in a poster for the 2000 staging of Ondine by The Royal Ballet
Choreographer	Sir Frederick Ashton
Music	Hans Werner Henze
Based on	Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's novella Undine
Premiere	27 October 1958 Royal Opera House, London
Original ballet company	The Royal Ballet
Characters	Ondine (Undine) Palemon Tirrenio, Lord of the   Mediterranean Sea Berta (Beatrice) Hermit
Setting	Mediterranean
Created for	Dame Margot Fonteyn
Genre	Neoclassical ballet
Type	Classical ballet

Ondine is a ballet in three acts created by the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and composer Hans Werner Henze. Ashton originally produced Ondine for the Royal Ballet in 1958, with Henze commissioned to produce the original score, published as Undine, which has since been restaged by other choreographers. The ballet was adapted from a novella titled Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and it tells the tale of a water nymph who is the object of desire of a young prince named Palemon. The première of the ballet took place at the Royal Opera House, London, on 27 October 1958, with the composer as guest conductor.^[1] The first major revival of this Ashton/Henze production took place in 1988.