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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.
The Nutcracker, first introduced in Russia in 1892, is a balletic telling of the story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The performance opens with a Christmas party at the Stahlbaum’s house ...
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."
The Story Behind Nutcrackers Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they ...
Christensen's Nutcracker continues in Salt Lake City, where it is performed annually by Christensen's Ballet West. [3] The stage success of the Christensen version marked the first step in making productions of The Nutcracker annual Christmas season traditions all over the world – a phenomenon that did not really come to flower until the late ...
Step into the holiday magic of Ballet Lubbock’s "The Nutcracker." Discover the artistry behind the costumes, choreography and sets at Buddy Holly Hall.
The Nutcracker in 3D (also known as Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is a feature-length musical variation in 3-D on the tale set in 1920s Vienna, featuring John Turturro as the Rat King, Elle Fanning as Mary (rather than Clara) and Nathan Lane as a young Albert Einstein, here known only as Uncle Albert. Originally scheduled to be released during ...
Trepak (Russian: Трепак; Ukrainian: Трoпак or Трiпак), [1] also referred to as the Russian dance, is one of the character dances from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. It is based on the traditional Russian [2] and Ukrainian folk dance also called the trepak.