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Contents. Composition After the success of in 1890, the director of the Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. The opera would be. For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on The Sleeping Beauty. The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of 's story ', by called 'The Story of a Nutcracker'. The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long story within its main plot titled 'The Tale of the Hard Nut', which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker.
This had to be excised for the ballet. Petipa gave Tchaikovsky extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each number, down to the tempo and number of bars. The completion of the work was interrupted for a short time when Tchaikovsky visited the United States for twenty-five days to conduct concerts for the opening of. Tchaikovsky composed parts of The Nutcracker in. History Saint Petersburg premiere. As the Sugar Plum Fairy and as Prince Coqueluche in the Grand pas de deux in the original production of The Nutcracker., Saint Petersburg, c. 1900 The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, on 18 December 6 December 1892, at the in Saint Petersburg,.
Although the libretto was by, who exactly choreographed the first production has been debated. Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892; however, illness removed him from its completion and his assistant of seven years, was brought in. Although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa. The performance was conducted by, with as the Sugar Plum Fairy, as Prince Coqueluche, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, as the Nutcracker-Prince, and as Drosselmeyer. Unlike in many later productions, the children's roles were performed by real children – students of the, with Belinskaya as Clara, and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz – rather than adults. The first performance of The Nutcracker was not deemed a success. The reaction to the dancers themselves was ambivalent.
While some critics praised Dell'Era on her as the Sugar Plum Fairy (she allegedly received five curtain-calls), one critic called her 'corpulent' and 'podgy'. Olga Preobrajenskaya as the Columbine doll was panned by one critic as 'completely insipid' and praised as 'charming' by another. Described the choreography of the battle scene as confusing: 'One can not understand anything.
Disorderly pushing about from corner to corner and running backwards and forwards – quite amateurish.' The libretto was criticized as 'lopsided' and for not being faithful to the Hoffmann tale. Much of the criticism focused on the featuring of children so prominently in the ballet, and many bemoaned the fact that the ballerina did not dance until the near the end of the second act (which did not occur until nearly midnight during the program). Some found the transition between the mundane world of the first scene and the fantasy world of the second act too abrupt. Reception was better for Tchaikovsky's score. Some critics called it 'astonishingly rich in detailed inspiration' and 'from beginning to end, beautiful, melodious, original, and characteristic'. But this also was not unanimous as some critics found the party scene 'ponderous' and the Grand Pas de Deux 'insipid'.
Subsequent productions. Main article: In 1919, choreographer staged a production which eliminated the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and gave their dances to Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, who were played by adults instead of children. This was the first production to do so. An abridged version of the ballet was first performed outside Russia in Budapest (Royal Opera House) in 1927, with choreography by Ede Brada. In 1934, choreographer staged a version of the work that addressed many of the criticisms of the original 1892 production by casting adult dancers in the roles of Clara and the Prince, as Gorsky had. The Vainonen version influenced several later productions.
The first complete performance outside Russia took place in England in 1934, staged by after Petipa's original choreography. Annual performances of the ballet have been staged there since 1952. Another abridged version of the ballet, performed by the, was staged in in 1940, – again, after Petipa's version. The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the, staged by its artistic director, and starring Gisella Caccialanza as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Jocelyn Vollmar as the Snow Queen. After the enormous success of this production, San Francisco Ballet has presented Nutcracker every Christmas Eve and throughout the winter season, debuting new productions in 1944, 1954, 1967, and 2004. The gave its first annual performance of 's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954.
Beginning in the 1960s, the tradition of performing the complete ballet at Christmas eventually spread to the rest of the United States. Since Gorsky, Vainonen and Balanchine's productions, many other choreographers have made their own versions. Some institute the changes made by Gorsky and Vainonen while others, like Balanchine, utilize the original libretto. Some notable productions include those by for the, for the, for the, for starting in 1983, and for the and the. In recent years, revisionist productions, including those by, and have appeared; these depart radically from both the original 1892 libretto and Vainonen's revival, while 's version completely discards the original plot and characters.
In addition to annual live stagings of the work, many productions have also been televised and/or released on home video. Roles The following extrapolation of the characters (in order of appearance) is drawn from an examination of the stage directions in the score. This article contains that may be poorly defined,. Please help to to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Where appropriate, incorporate items into the main body of the article. ( December 2018) For a comprehensive list of stage, film and television adaptations of The Nutcracker, see: Film Several films having little or nothing to do with the ballet or the original Hoffmann tale have used its music:. The 1940 animated film features a segment using. This version was also included both as part of the 3-LP of Fantasia (since released as a 2-CD set), and as a single LP, with Dance of the Hours, another Fantasia segment, on the reverse side., a 1950 made-for-TV featurette in color narrated by, utilizes the poem, and this sequence also includes music from The Nutcracker. A 1951 thirty-minute short, Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen, issued on DVD by, features several dances from The Nutcracker. A 1954 16mm version of features a dream sequence in which music from The Nutcracker is played. (1973) features a nameless girl (slightly similar to Clara) who works as a.
She befriends and falls in love with a nutcracker ornament, who was a young prince cursed by the three headed Mouse King. released a stop-motion adaptation of The Nutcracker entitled in 1979. In 1988, was produced by the Canadian animation studio Nelvana and featured the Care Bears characters. A 1990 animated film titled was released and distributed by and uses cuts of the music throughout and its story is based heavily on that of the ballet. In 2001, appeared in her first film,. It used excerpts by Tchaikovsky, which were performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Though it heavily altered the story, it still made use of ballet sequences which had been using real ballet dancers. In the 2006 remake of, 'Dance of the sugar plum fairy' appears numerous times throughout the movie including being the ringtone of the protagonist's cellphone, a music box and playing during the end credits.
In 2007, also used 'The Nutcracker' excerpts, which were performed by The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In 2010abandoned the ballet and most of the story, retaining much of Tchaikovsky's music with lyrics. The $90 million film became the year's biggest. In 2013, the ending scene is a reference to the Nutcracker Witch.
In 2018, the Disney live-action film was released with and as directors and a script by Ashleigh Powell. Television. A 1954 Christmas episode of featured and his choral group, the Pennsylvanians, singing excerpts from The Nutcracker with specially written lyrics. While the music was being sung, the audience saw ballet dancers performing. The episode was hosted.
A 1996 episode of ('Holiday Special', season 3, episode 39), Wanda is planning to see a performance of The Nutcracker. Some of the music for this episode was based on the score of the ballet., a 2002 series that uses elements from many ballets as both music and as part of the storyline, uses the music from The Nutcracker in many places throughout its run, including using an arranged version of the overture as the theme for the main character. Both the first and last episodes feature The Nutcracker as their 'theme', and one of the main characters is named Drosselmeyer. A 2002 episode of titled 'The Nutcracker', set in a junkyard, portrayed the title character using a broken nutcracker to defend his masters against two enormous rats intent on devouring them. A special, included an animated short, starring as the Nutcracker, as Maria, as Drosselmeyer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy and as the Mouse King, and portrayed a brief overview of the story, sarcastically narrated.
The story ran with -style adaptations of Tchaikovsky's music. The 'Toon TV' episode of and features a song called 'Video Game Blues', set to the melodies of 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' and the 'Russian Dance'. A 2005 episode of called ' (Season 17, episode 9), features a montage in which are seen residents of Springfield on Christmas, singing to the tune of pieces from The Nutcracker Suite. on Nick Jr. Includes a Christmas themed episode called 'Save the Nutcracker', featuring the Nutcracker and Mouse King from the original ballet, as well as much of the music.
An episode of the series features the Mouse King as a central character. In an episode of, Angelina sees a performance of The Nutcracker. The cartoon Nutcracker Slappy featured Slappy and Skippy trying to crack open a walnut in various ways only to find it was empty, all to the music of The Nutcracker. Another cartoon, I Got Yer Can, featured Slappy and Skippy involved in a comedic confrontation involving a soft drink can and their neighbor Candi Chipmunk, whose theme tune was 'The Dance of the Reed Flutes'. A two part episode of the cartoon series in the 1980s features the Care Bears as the main characters, with Beastley as the Rat King. During the Christmas music special of, one of the incidental bits of music they hear is the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, at which Beavis is impressed (saying it's like ) and he even chants along to the tune before humming '. The song also appears in the episode 'The Mystery of Morning Wood' while they sleep and the Morning Wood Fairy comes out of the TV.
In the, Adam and Jamie are testing the ' myth. As Adam and Jamie are preparing the bus for testing, Adam is aggressively preparing the bus to the sound of, while Jamie is gently preparing the roll cage to the tune of 'Dance of the Reed Flutes.' ., (, episode 12) titled, '.' Within this episode is the 'Hospital for Over-Actors' sketch, which includes several patients acting as the Mouse King. In the early 1980s, a commercial for the breakfast cereal Smurfberry Crunch used a portion of The Nutcracker Suite as music for an advertising jingle sung. The season 1 episode of, ', 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' is heard in its background music soundtrack a number of times. In episode 9 of, 'Dance of the Reed Flutes' plays when the Akudama Trio holds signs in Space to get Gagarin to say 'The Earth is Blue'.
The 2015 Canadian television film, based on an autobiographical short story by onetime Canadian ballet student Vickie Fagan, centres on a young ballet student preparing to dance the role of Clara in a production of The Nutcracker. The anime features a small snippet of the marzipan song from the ballet in an episode. Video games.
In the version of, the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' is available as background music (referred to in the settings as 'Music 1'), and the same arrangement was later remixed for the Game Boy Advance version of. In the game, 'Waltz of the Flowers' is used as the music for the event. In the game, the main character Jack meets an insane musician named Sander Cohen who tasks Jack with killing and photographing four of Sander's ex-disciples. When the third photograph is given to Sander, in a fit of pique he unleashes waves of splicer enemies to attack Jack while playing 'Waltz of the Flowers' from speakers in the area. In the original 'Dance of the Reed Flutes' and 'Miniature Overture' is used in several levels. In, there is also a fat ballerina dancing to the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' in the Hall of Tubes.
In the levels of, a variation of the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' is used as the background music. In, the 'Waltz of the Flowers' can be heard in the Balloon Fantasy minigame. In the game, a piece from 'The Nutcracker' is used as background music for a event. In the 'Waltz of Flowers', 'The Arabian Dance', 'The Russian Dance', 'The Dance of the Reed Flutes' and 'The Chinese Dance' are the background themes that play when Riku is in the world based on Disney's. In, the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' is used as the character theme for Iwamine Shuu. In a TV advertisement for, the plastic work together using a train playset to move a firecracker under the Christmas tree and place it between the Nutcracker doll's legs, while 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' plays.
In, a medley of 'The Nutcracker' is listed and consists of the 'Marche', 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy', and 'Trepak'; besides the original mix, there is also the 'D00 BAH D00' mix and the 'DC Breaks' mix. In, the 'March' is used in the Mad Dog boss battle. In one of the classical horns, that can be bought for cars, plays the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy'.
The 'Waltz of the Flowers' appears during a baby's death scene in. In, the piece: The Nutcracker, Miniature Overture, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky can be overheard playing in the Cigar Lounge on the second floor of Kafe Dostoyevsky.
Children's recordings There have been several recorded children's adaptations of the E.T.A. Hoffmann story (the basis for the ballet) using Tchaikovsky's music, some quite faithful, some not. One that was not was a version titled The Nutcracker Suite for Children, narrated by Metropolitan Opera announcer, which used a two-piano arrangement of the music. It was released as a 78-RPM album set in the 1940s.
For the children's label, actor narrated a condensed adaptation of the story with excerpts from the score. It was released on one side of a 45-RPM disc. A later version, titled The Nutcracker Suite, starred and a full cast, was released in the 1960s on LP and made use of Tchaikovsky's music in the original orchestral arrangements. It was quite faithful to Hoffmann's story, on which the ballet is based, even to the point of including the section in which Clara cuts her arm on the glass toy cabinet, and also mentioning that she married the Prince at the end. It also included a less gruesome version of 'The Tale of the Hard Nut', the tale-within-a-tale in Hoffmann's story. It was released as part of the series.
Journalism. In 2009, –winning dance critic Sarah Kaufman wrote a series of articles for criticizing the primacy of The Nutcracker in the American repertory for stunting the creative evolution of ballet in the United States: That warm and welcoming veneer of domestic bliss in The Nutcracker gives the appearance that all is just plummy in the ballet world. But ballet is beset by serious ailments that threaten its future in this country. Companies are so cautious in their programming that they have effectively reduced an art form to a rotation of over-roasted chestnuts that no one can justifiably croon about.
The tyranny of The Nutcracker is emblematic of how dull and risk-averse American ballet has become. There were moments throughout the 20th century when ballet was brave. When it threw bold punches at its own conventions. First among these was the period, when ballet— ballet—lassoed the avant-garde art movement and, with works such as 's fashionably sexy (1910) and 's -inspired (1917), made world capitals sit up and take notice.
Afraid of scandal? Not these free-thinkers; 's rough-hewn, aggressive famously put Paris in an uproar in 1913. Where are this century's provocations? Has ballet become so entwined with its 'Nutcracker' image, so fearfully wedded to unthreatening offerings, that it has forgotten how eye-opening and ultimately nourishing creative destruction can be? — Sarah Kaufman, dance critic for. In 2010, dance critic for (who had previously taken Kaufman to task for her criticism of The Nutcracker ) began The Nutcracker Chronicles, a series of blog articles documenting his travels across the United States to see different productions of the ballet.
Act I of The Nutcracker ends with snow falling and snowflakes dancing. Yet The Nutcracker is now seasonal entertainment even in parts of America where snow seldom falls: Hawaii, the California coast, Florida.
Over the last 70 years this ballet—conceived in the Old World—has become an American institution. Its amalgam of children, parents, toys, a Christmas tree, snow, sweets and Tchaikovsky’s astounding score is integral to the season of good will that runs from Thanksgiving to New Year. I am a European who lives in America, and I never saw any Nutcracker until I was 21. Since then I’ve seen it many times.
The importance of this ballet to America has become a phenomenon that surely says as much about this country as it does about this work of art. So this year I'm running a Nutcracker marathon: taking in as many different American productions as I can reasonably manage in November and December, from coast to coast (more than 20, if all goes well). America is a country I’m still discovering; let The Nutcracker be part of my research.