Ballet 2011-2012: Nutcracker
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November
(Check with your local participating cinema for any additional screenings)
Performed by the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Choreography and direction: Yuri Grigorovich
Performers:
Stahlbaum Alexei Loparevich
His wife Olga Suvorova
Fritz, their son Anna Proskurnina
Marie, their daughter Nina Kaptsova
Drosselmeyer Denis Savin
Nutcracker Artem Ovcharenko
The Mouse King Pavel Dmitrichenko
Music: Pytor Illyitch Tchaikovksy, directed by Pavel Klinichev with libretto by Yuri Grigorovich
Set design: Simon Virsaladze
With the Orchestra of the Bolshoi State Theatre
With the Bolshoi soloists and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet
Based on a fantastic tale of the same name by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman and with ideas from Marius Petipa’s script.
Created and presented for the first time in 1982 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Nutcracker is Tchaikovsky’s last ballet. Composed within one year, the music is certainly one of today’s most popular ballet music and Nutcracker, one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular piece of work. Created for the Bolshoi, Yuri Grigorovich’s choreographic version is full of romanticism and philosophical reflections on ideal love. This version became one of the great classics of the twentieth century.
On Christmas Eve, Marie’s godfather, Drosselmeyer, offers her a nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. At midnight, after the celebrations are over, Marie watches a miracle: the Christmas tree begins to grow, the toys come to life and all the lead soliders are under Nutcracker’s command. The Mouse King and its army of mice declare war. Nutcracker flies to Marie’s rescue as she is threatened by the mice army…
Running time: Approximately 1 hour 24 minutes (including one intermission)
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Ballet season 2011: The Nutcracker (Bolshoi Theatre)
The Nutcracker
By Yuri Grigorovich
SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY and SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY
(Additional screenings at select cinemas)
Running time: Two acts, approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes
Performed by the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, directed by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, libretto by Yuri Grigorovich
Design: Simon Virsaladze
This performance of The Nutcracker is captured live in high definition from the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in Moscow. The scenario by Yuri Grigorovich after the folk tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman (based on the original scenario by Marius Petipa). The character Marie is performed by Nina Kaptsova with Artem Ovcharenko as The Nutcracker/The Prince.
The Nutcracker is a ballet traditionally performed during the Christmas season, filled with magic and wonder as the child Marie’s toys come to life, including the wooden nutcracker soldier prince. Tchaikovsky’s score features the famous ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ in Act II.
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