By marrying contemporary music with Hans Christian Andersen's well-known classics fairytale, musically The Little Mermaid gains accessibility for children unfamiliar with opera. The story of The Little Mermaid's sacrifice for love reveals to us life in three worlds - the subterranean world of the sea people with their strange myths and moral codes against the tangible world of land fold, together with the mysterious unknown world of the heavens and the Daughters of the Air. The Little Mermaid's experience of these three worlds seems to reinforce the fragility of life.