Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete); Sleeping Beauty (suite)
"The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; French: Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, 18 December 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta. Although the original production was not a success, the twenty-minute
suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the
complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the
late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily
during the Christmas season, especially in the U.S ..." (Wikipedia).
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