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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 featuring a Nutcracker doll.
Op. 66 The Sleeping Beauty, ballet (1889) Op. 67a Hamlet, fantasy overture in F minor (1889) Op. 67b Hamlet, incidental music (1891) Op. 68 The Queen of Spades, opera (1890) Op. 69 Iolanta, opera (1891) Op. 70 String Sextet in D minor Souvenir de Florence (1890) Op. 71 The Nutcracker, ballet (1892) Op. 71a The Nutcracker, suite from the ballet ...
Tchaikovsky's now-classic 1892 ballet The Nutcracker received its first complete production in the U.S. on 24 December 1944, performed by the San Francisco Ballet.This production used the ballet's original plot and was choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier. [1]
Original cast in the Imperial Ballet's original production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, December 1892 "Tchaikovsky was made for ballet," writes musicologist David Brown [4] Before him, musicologist Francis Maes writes, ballet music was written by specialists, such as Ludwig Minkus and Cesare Pugni, "who wrote nothing else and knew all the tricks of the trade."
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's popular 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is derived from E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.The ballet's scenario, crafted by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa after a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, is far simpler and less nuanced than Hoffmann's original story.
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