A younger woman’s enchanted current leads her on an exquisite Christmas journey on this lovely classical ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent rating.
Peter Wright’s nigh-on definitive manufacturing for The Royal Ballet ranks as one of the enduring and enchanting variations of The Nutcracker. With its festive interval setting, dancing snowflakes and enchanting stage magic, Lev Ivanov’s 1892 ballet has grow to be the proper Christmas leisure, with Tchaikovsky’s luxurious, sugar-spun music essentially the most recognizable of all ballet scores.
Loosely based mostly on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the ballet opens with the vigorous Christmas get together that’s hosted by the Stahlbaum household, its Victorian setting captured in opulent element by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s designs. Wright’s choreography ingeniously incorporates surviving fragments of the ballet’s unique materials, together with the chic pas de deux for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince. However in emphasizing the connection between Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, the manufacturing additionally positive factors a touching subtext of old flame.
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The Sugar Plum Fairy: Akane Takada
The Prince: Cesar Corrales
Herr Drosselmeyer: Christopher Saunders
Clara: Isabella Gasparini
Hans-Peter/The Nutcracker: Luca Acri
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera Home, performed by Koen Kessels
Screening ballet
When December 26 & January 2 at 5pm
The place Pantheon Theatre, Nicosia
Tickets: €10
Length: 135’