the nutcracker

     

Russian, Chinese, Arabian & Spanish dances are highlights of this ballet that premiered December 18, 1892

Trivia about the nutcracker

  • It's what the mysterious Drosselmeyer gives to Clara in the ballet of the same name
  • I'll be left to my own devices when I play this title shelling device--filberts, anyone?
  • Herr Drosselmeyer brings Clara a special Christmas gift in this 1892 ballet
  • Learn to do your shopping early; Decembers will be spent rehearsing this ballet that premiered in December 1892
  • Maria Tallchief played the sugarplum fairy in a 1954 New York City ballet performance of this classic
  • It's believed this Christmas classic is the most frequently performed ballet in history
  • In many versions of this classic 1892 holiday ballet, Clara rides off to the Kingdom of Sweets in a magical sleigh
  • The ballet in which a little girl is entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy
  • Peter Tchaikovsky wrote 3 ballets: "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty" & this perennial Christmas favorite
  • The title character of this ballet leads toy soldiers in a fight against the mouse king & his army
  • This Christmas ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The music of this Tchaikovsky "Suite" comes from his 1892 ballet, popular at Christmas
  • Act II of this classic ballet takes place in the Kingdom of Sweets
  • I have to see the NYCB's production of this; the Christmas tree grows about 40 feet high & weighs a ton!
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skull at the Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins.) When Mary Leakey discovered Paranthropus boisei in 1959, her husband Louis saw the heavy teeth & jaws & nicknamed the species this man, like the title character of a Tchaikovsky ballet
  • On Dec. 23, 2003 the inaugural event of the newly renovated Opera House was the Kirov dancing this ballet
  • The music for this ballet is great; ignore the critics who don't like children in leading roles & the Christmas setting
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set
  • A Hoffmann tale title lost the words "And The Mouse King" when it became this Tchaikovsky ballet
  • A flurry of ballerinas performs the "Waltz of the Snowflakes" in this beloved ballet

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