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Bourne's radical reinterpretations of classic ballets set him apart as a choreographer. In 1992, he placed the Christmas Eve scene of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in a Victorian orphanage reminiscent of a Charles Dickens novel.
For 2012, contestants included the following: the London Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker, Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!, the Bolshoi Ballet's The Nutcracker, Nutcracker: The Story of Clara, two Mariinsky Nutcrackers (2008 and 2012 respectively), and the San Francisco Ballet's The Nutcracker. The winner was the San Francisco version.
Subsequent AMP productions included Nutcracker! (1992), Highland Fling (1994), Swan Lake (1995), Cinderella (1997) and The Car Man (2000). In 2000, Bourne formed New Adventures with producer Robert Noble, who became co-director of the company. [ 2 ]
The Nutcracker Story is a documentary film made for The South Bank Show, [1] written and directed by Margy Kinmonth and produced by Foxtrot Films Ltd in association with ITV productions and Channel 4 International. [2]
Murfitt has danced with Matthew Bourne's companies AMP and New Adventures for over 20 years. She has created many roles in Bourne's work, including Clara In "Nutcracker", Rita in "The Car Man" and Peg Boggs in "Edward Scissorhands". She currently also serves as Artistic Associate and Associate Director for all the companies' productions.
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
In 1992, Duncan was co-writer of the scenario for Matthew Bourne's The Nutcracker for Opera North and the Edinburgh International Festival, which he co-directed with Bourne. [20] It received an Olivier Award nomination. At the BBC Proms 2012, Duncan directed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD on January 29, 2019 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Blu-ray extras include featurettes, five deleted scenes, and music videos for "Fall on Me" by Andrea Bocelli featuring his son Matteo Bocelli, and Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite performed by Lang Lang. [26]