Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

“The Nutcracker” - op. 71, two-act ballet by P. I. Tchaikovsky to a libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” choreographer Lev Ivanov. The libretto was based on the adaptation of the fairy tale, made in 1844 by Alexandre Dumas the father (the theater encyclopedia erroneously names the author of the adaptation as Dumas the son) and published in the same year under the title “The Story of the Nutcracker.” Despite the preservation of the main plot outline of the fairy tale, Dumas’ translation was presented is a new version of it, different from the to a partial change in the plot of Hoffmann’s fairy tale, the plot version of the libretto appears in a more smoothed out, fairy-tale-symbolic form. The premiere of the ballet, staged by Lev Ivanov, took place on December 6 (18), 1892 at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg on the same evening as Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta. The premiere was conducted by Riccardo Drigo, the scenery was by Mikhail Bocharov and K. Ivanov, the costumes were made according to the sketches of the director of the Imperial Theaters Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Evgeny Ponomarev. do you want to have 1000 subscribers and 4000 channel views? Add the vidIQ extension to your channel