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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.
The first recorded performance was telecast by CBS in 1957 on the TV anthology The Seven Lively Arts; while Balanchine's archives refer to it as complete, [1] it was abridged to 55 minutes long. [4] This was not only the first telecast of the Balanchine version, but of any staging of the ballet.
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
First performed by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944, The Nutcracker became a smash hit when it was reworked by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet in 1954. And the rest, they say, is ...
Tennessee Ballet Theater's 'Clara & The Nutcracker' Dec. 8, Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main St. The Cannon Center will host a performance of “Clara & The Nutcracker” on Dec. 8.
OKC Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' With: Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Canterbury Voices. When: Dec. 14-23. Sensory-friendly performance: 7 p.m. Dec. 18. Nutcracker Tea ...
"The Nutcracker," a two-act classical ballet, is set to open at the Midland Nov. 24 and run through Nov. 26. 'Kids get their chance to just shine': 'The Nutcracker' set for 28th annual performance ...
[1] The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine's production opened in New York in 1954. (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker began in 1949.)