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Listen to:
Sugar Plum Fairy (used with permission, by Dan Szymborski)
Nutcracker (used with permission, by R.J.Stratton, Jr)
Trepak (used with permission, by Dan Szymborski)

 

 

 

 

The Nutcracker on Video:			The Nutcracker Music on CD:
With The Bolshoi Ballet	With Mikhail Baryshnikov	Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet	Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

 

The Nutcracker ~ A classic ballet in two acts consisting of the 'real world' and a 'magical kingdom'
~ Written by Marius Petipa who based it on E.T.A. Hoffmann's German tale
~ It was first performed in 1892
~ A widely popular ballet usually performed at Christmas time

Principle Characters:
Clara - The young heroine
Herr Drosselmeyer - Clara's eccentric Godfather
The Nutcracker Prince - Clara's consort throughout her adventures in the Kingdom of Sweets
The Sugar Plum Fairy - Who rules the land of the sweets

 

The Nutcracker Story:

 

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