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The film was directed by Carroll Ballard, who had never before directed a ballet film (and has not done so since). Patricia Barker played Clara in the fantasy sequences, and Vanessa Sharp played her in the Christmas party scene.
Apr 15, 2024 · The Nutcracker, ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The last of his three ballets, it was first performed in December 1892. The Nutcracker tells a story about a girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on Christmas Eve and wages a battle against the evil Mouse King.
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Drosselmeyer—known as “Uncle Drosselmeyer” to the Stahlbaums—warmly greets the family and entertains everyone with magic. The children are delighted by an acrobatic jack-in-the-box and a beautiful, life-sized ballerina doll. Uncle Drosselmeyer then opens his gift and presents the magical nutcracker to Clara.
The origin of the Nutcracker, a classic Christmas Story, is a fairy tale ballet in two acts centered on a family’s Christmas Eve celebration. Alexandre Dumas Père’s adaptation of the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky and originally choreographed by Marius Petipa.
Cradling her Nutcracker doll, she remembers, and wonders…was this all a dream? Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker is based on the libretto by Alexandre Dumas père, titled The Tale of the Nutcracker, which is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
May 21, 2019 · The roles in the ballet are based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Although The Nutcracker made its debut in 1892 (in St. Petersburg, Russia), the first production in the United States – choreographed by William Christensen – was performed by San Francisco Ballet in 1944.
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Dec 9, 2014 · Fifty years ago, George Balanchine finally staged the Nutcracker of his dreams, a triumph for the New York City Ballet in its then new Lincoln Center home.
