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Sugar plums are widely associated with Christmas, through cultural phenomena such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker (composed by Tchaikovsky, 1892), as well as the line, "The children were nestled all snug in their beds/While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads," from Clement C. Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823), better known as " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
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.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:09, 7 December 2009: 683 × 1,024 (294 KB): トトト {{Information |Description=Miyako Yoshida and Steven McRae as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her prince in the Royal Ballet production of the Nutcracker on Wednesday 2 December 2009. |Source
The Fairies have control over nature and control each season. The Dewdrop Fairies create dewdrops in flowers and webs for spring while dancing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The other fairies are the Summer Fairies, who change spring to summer; the Autumn Fairies, who change summer to autumn and make the leaves fall and change color; the ...
Stella (Crown Princess of Solaria, Princess of the Sun and the Moon, Fairy of the Shining Sun, Fairy of the Sun and the Moon, Fairy of Sunlight, Fairy of Light, Fairy of the Sun, Moon and Stars, Guardian Fairy of the Kingdom of Solaria, Miss Solaria, Miss Magix (S1E12), Queen Stella of Solaria (S6E19 - S6E20/Future) Winx Club, Fate: The Winx Saga
Sugar Plum attempts to turn Mother Ginger back into a toy, but Clara tinkers with the engine so it aims back at Sugar Plum when activated, turning her back into a porcelain doll and rendering her entire army lifeless. Thanked for restoring peace among the Realms and the destruction of Sugar Plum, Clara promises to visit in the future.
Original publication in 1816 in Berlin in the collection Kinder-Märchen (Children's Stories) by In der Realschulbuchhandlung "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella–fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which a young girl's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King ...