Lo Schiaccianoci

Also known as Nutcracker

balletto con musiche di Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij

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"The Nutcracker" is an 1892 two-act classical ballet by Tchaikovsky set on Christmas Eve in a child's imagination around a magical Nutcracker doll, adapted from earlier literary sources. Though initially less popular than the concert suite Tchaikovsky extracted from it, the full ballet eventually became a beloved classic that remains widely performed today.

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Named after: nutcracker doll
Author: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Librettist: Marius Petipa
Image: Nutcracker1892.jpg

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Commons category: The Nutcracker
topic's main category: Category:The Nutcracker
title: Щелкунчик
choreographer: Marius Petipa
location of first performance: Mariinsky Theatre
inception: 1892-00-00
set during recurring event: Christmas and holiday season
opus number: 71

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Lo schiaccianoci (in russo Щелкунчик, Ščelkunčik) è un balletto con musiche di Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij (op. 71), il quale seguì minuziosamente le indicazioni del coreografo Marius Petipa e, in seguito, quelle del suo successore Lev Ivanov. Il balletto fu commissionato dal direttore dei Teatri Imperiali Russi, , e la storia deriva dal racconto Schiaccianoci e il re dei topi di Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (Nussknacker und Mausekönig, 1815) nella versione edulcorata di Alexandre Dumas padre, Storia di uno schiaccianoci (Histoire d’un casse-noisette, 1845).

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