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The Nutcracker

Belarus State Academic Musical Theater, Minsk, Belarus
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Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Minsk, Belarus
Starts at: 11:00
Acts: 2

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Overview

The Nutcracker (Balet-feyeriya) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King".

Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker. The ballet's score has been used in several film adaptations of Hoffmann's story.

Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.

After the success of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. The opera would be Iolanta. For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on The Sleeping Beauty. The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by Alexandre Dumas called "The Story of a Nutcracker". The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot titled "The Tale of the Hard Nut", which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker. This had to be excised for the ballet.

Petipa gave Tchaikovsky extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each number, down to the tempo and number of bars. The completion of the work was interrupted for a short time when Tchaikovsky visited the United States for twenty-five days to conduct concerts for the opening of Carnegie Hall. Tchaikovsky composed parts of The Nutcracker in Rouen, France.

Venue Info

Belarus State Academic Musical Theater - Minsk
Location   44 Myasnikova str.

The Belarus State Academic Musical Theater was established in 1970, and opened its first theatrical season on January 17, 1971 with the play "The Lark Sings" by the Belarusian composer Yuri Semenyako. Until 2000, the collective was called the "State Theater of Musical Comedy of Belarus".

He opened his first theatrical season on January 17, 1971 with the play "The Lark Sings" by the Belarusian composer Yuri Semenyako. The creative fate of the theater was not easy. For the first decade of its existence, the collective, not having its own premises, was forced to wander around different stages of the city. In 1981, the theater finally got its own building at 44 Myasnikova Street, where on October 15 it opened its twelfth season with Johann Strauss's operetta The Bat.

During the existence of the theater, more than a hundred performances were staged on its stage, many of which were included in the golden fund of national culture, became significant events in the cultural life of the country.

On the stage of the Musical Theater, the right of the first staging of the works of Belarusian authors was granted: "Pavlinka", "The Week of Eternal Love", "Stepan the Great Pan" by Yuri Semenyako, "Nesterka" and "Judgment Hour" by Grigory Surus, "Denis Davydov" by Andrey Mdivani, "Millionaire" by Evgeny Glebov, "Spring Song" and "Adventures in the Alphabet Castle" by Viktor Voitik, "Julia" and a "Glass of Water" by Vladimir Kondrusevich.

In today's repertoire of the theater there are more than fifty performances of different genres. The playbill presents classical operetta, musical, musical comedy, comic opera, rock opera, ballet, performances for children, diverse concert programs.

People's Artists of Belarus Natalia Gayda, Ekaterina Fadeeva; Honored Artists of the Republic of Belarus Vasily Serdyukov, Veniamin Zakharov, Margarita Alexandrovich, Anton Zayanchkovsky, Lyudmila Stanevich, Viktor Tsirkunovich; Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Belarus Adam Murzich; Honored Artist of Russia Alexey Kuzmin; Honored Worker of Culture of Russia Mikhail Kovalchik; laureates of international and republican creative contests.

To date, the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theater is one of the largest theatrical and entertainment institutions in Belarus. The theater has a high reputation among viewers and professional colleagues from different countries, is one of the most popular, beloved and visited theaters of the republic. During the year, the theater is visited by more than 250 thousand people, and creative projects that take place outdoors, touring performances and concerts can be seen by several thousand people at the same time.

Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Minsk, Belarus
Starts at: 11:00
Acts: 2
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