Petipa adapted Vsevolozsky's story to the requirements of ballet. He wrote an adaptation of Hoffmann's story based on the Alexandre Dumas translation.

He picked Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' as the subject for the new ballet. Vsevolozsky thought another ballet based on a children's story would be just as successful as The Sleeping Beauty. Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky the composer, Tchaikovsky and the choreographer, Marius Petipa. It was the work of the director of the Imperial Theatres in St. This ballet was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. The origin of The Nutcracker has its roots in the great success of The Sleeping Beauty ballet. The ballet was based on this translation. Title page of the Alexandre Dumas translation of the story with Clara, Fritz and Drosselmeyer on the page. This work was a great success on the concert stage, and is still played today. Before the first performance, Tchaikovsky took some numbers from the ballet to form the Nutcracker Suite. The ballet has been performed in many different places since then. Interest grew when George Balanchine's The Nutcracker was televised in the late 1950s. In 1940, Walt Disney used some of the Nutcracker music in his animated movie Fantasia, which led to an interest in the ballet. Petersburg, Russia, on 18 December 1892 to a modest success and rarely seen the next years. The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov designed the dances. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music. Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa adapted Hoffmann's story for the ballet.

It tells the story of a little girl who goes to the Land of Sweets on Christmas Eve. Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The Nutcracker is a classical ballet in two acts. Hoffmann's ' The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'Īct 1: Christmas Eve in 19th century Germany

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