*Captured live on December 21, 2014.

Ballet in 2 acts based on a fantastic tale of the same name by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and with ideas of Marius Petipa’s script.

Created and presented for the first time in 1892 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.

Music : Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY. Libretto and choreography: Yuri GRIGOROVICH.

With the Orchestra of The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

With the Bolshoi soloists and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet.

Recorded transmission.

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Distributor: Pathé Live
Links: Pathe Live

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