Near the end of act i of tchaikovskys famous ballet the nutcracker, clara and the prince travel to a world where dancing snowflakes greet them and fairies and queens dance, welcoming clara and the prince into their world. Title page, contents, instrumentation, and overture act i, no. The ballet was first presented on 18 december 1892 at the mariinsky theatre in st. Spyashaya krasavitsa is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. Pyotr ilyich tchaikovskys nutcracker score was commissioned by the. With costumes by barbara karinska and lighting by jack owen brown, it was first presented by new york city ballet at the city center of music and drama, new york, on 29 march 1960. The magician drosselmeyer intends to show his guests, the young clara and hanspeter, the magic of a.
Guidi, oakland ballets founding artistic director now retired, gets. Melissa hayden and jacques damboise in nutrcackers. International ballet exchange presents the donetsk ballet of ukraine in the nutcracker 122008 starring. Tchaikovskys ballet of the nutcracker is based on alexandre dumas translation of the original tale by e. Complete your tchaikovsky the philadelphia orchestra conducted by eugene ormandy collection.
Tchaikovsky bolshoi theatre orchestra, gennady rozhdestvensky tchaikovsky bolshoi theatre orchestra, gennady rozhdestvensky nutcracker fairy ballet in two acts, op. Journey through the snow waltz of the snowflakes by pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky 10. This is the finale from act one of the nutcracker, by north atlanta dance theatre. The sugar plum fairy was first danced by antonietta dellera and the prince by pavel gerdt. The music was composed by pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky his opus 66. Pyotr ilyich tchaikovskys nutcracker score was commissioned by the director of. Sugarplum fairy and a cavalier by apsisapocynthion. Pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky nina kaptsova dance of the sugar plum fairy 2010 duration. It was originally meant to be danced by the sugar plum fairy and her cavalier, but is now very often danced by the nutcracker prince and clara, the girl through whose eyes we experience the. Act one tells a story of how little clara aids her magical christmas gift a nutcracker in the form of a soldier defeat an army of mice. Written in the early 1890s, this was the last ballet score tchaikovsky wrote. It begins with the transformation of the nutcracker prince.
A snow queen, a snow king, 12 snow angels, and 12 snow flakes, coupled with gallons of sprinkling snow, make the snow scene a completely. Crack performances oakland ballets intimate nutcracker. The musical theme of the andante maestoso is similar to tchaikovskys death themes in the fifth and sixth. The music was written by tchaikovsky and the dance was designed by lev ivanov. This sequence is frequently called either journey through the snow or a pine forest in winter. Their duet, set in a vintagelooking town square and danced with balanchine briskness, takes on a distinctly american flair. It was hurriedly composed for anna sobeshchanskaya, a bolshoi prima ballerina who was scheduled to make her debut in the title role at the fourth performance of the 1877 moscow production, and sought to enrich the. Typically the book untitled the nutcracker ballet, op. Glazunovs beautiful the seasons with its palpable influence on stravinsky and modern film music is probably one of the best fillers on any nutcracker set to be found, played just as delightfully by the rpo and led just as. I swear i heard someone coughing every 2 seconds im just like. Hoffmanns original story was darker than the ballet, but the plot remains largely the same. The paraphrase on tchaikovskys flower waltz is a successful piano arrangement from one of the movements from the nutcracker by the pianist and composer percy grainger. Eugene ormandy and the philadelphia orchestra perform a splendid version of the christmastime classic, with excerpts featured here. Tchaikovsky the nutcracker complete 1974, gatefold.
Concert suite from the nutcracker, for solo piano edit. The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his three ballets. The nutcracker the waltz of the snowflakes the royal ballet. Tchaikovsky asked if it mattered whether the notes were in ascending or descending order, and was assured it did not. Bassoon 1 and 2 parts qty 2 each a8900is the one of several books in which everyone read now.
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