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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker - Full Length (1892)

The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act "fairy ballet" set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.

The music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 71. The plot is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.


The ballet's first choreographer was Marius Petipa, with whom Tchaikovsky had worked three years earlier on The Sleeping Beauty, assisted by Lev Ivanov.


Although the complete and staged The Nutcracker ballet was not as successful as had been the 20-minute Nutcracker Suite that Tchaikovsky had premiered nine months earlier, The Nutcracker soon became popular.


PERFORMANCE

Choreography: Valery Kovtun

Costumes and sets: Mariia Levytska

Lights: Igor Samarets

Stahlbaurn: Oleksiy Kovalenko

His wife: Liudmyla Melnyk

Clara, Their Daughter: Iuliia Moskalenko

Fritz, Brother of Clara: Ielizaveta Gogidze

Drosselmeyer: Yaroslav Tkachuk

Nutcracker (doll): Ielizaveta Cherniak

Nutcracker / The Prince: Mykyta Sukhorukov

Mouse King: Ruslan Avramenko

Harlequin: Sergii Kliachin

Columbine: Ganna Muromtseva

Devil: Marjia Nelen

Devil: Volodymyr Kutuzov

Corps de Ballet of the National Opera of Ukraine

Orchestra and Chorus of the National Opera of Ukraine

Musical direction: Oleksiy Baklan

Tchaikovsky
1840 - 1893