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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.
A Nutcracker Christmas is a Christmas film originally broadcast on the Hallmark Channel in 2016. The film premiered on Lifetime December 10, 2016. It stars Amy Acker as Lily, Sascha Radetsky as Mark, Sophia Lucia as Sadie. The film presents Lily's dreams and ballet career, and leads up to her Nutcracker performance as the Sugar Plum fairy. As a ...
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 ...
The Lone Star Ballet presents its annual production of the holiday classic "The Nutcracker" from Dec. 12 to Dec. 15 at the Amarillo Civic Center. Scheduled show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday, 3 and 7 ...
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Nov. 29—TUPELO — A Tupelo holiday tradition continues for the 41st year as Tupelo Ballet hosts performances of "The Nutcracker" this weekend. More than 150 dancers, actors and company members ...
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.
The company performs The Nutcracker in 1940. The company Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (with a plural name) was formed in 1932 after the death of Sergei Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes. Its director was Wassily de Basil (usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil), and its artistic director was René Blum. They fell out in 1936 and ...