Contents.Composition After the success of in 1890, 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. 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 's story ', by 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 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. Tchaikovsky composed parts of The Nutcracker in. History Saint Petersburg premiere. The original production of The Nutcracker, 1892The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, on 18 December 6 December 1892, at the in Saint Petersburg,. Although the libretto was by, who exactly choreographed the first production has been debated.
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Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892; however, illness removed him from its completion and his assistant of seven years, was brought in. Although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa. The performance was conducted by Italian composer, with as the Sugar Plum Fairy, as Prince Coqueluche, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, as the Nutcracker-Prince, and as Drosselmeyer. Unlike in many later productions, the children's roles were performed by real children – students of the, with Belinskaya as Clara, and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz – rather than adults.The first performance of The Nutcracker was not deemed a success. The reaction to the dancers themselves was ambivalent. While some critics praised Dell'Era on her as the Sugar Plum Fairy (she allegedly received five curtain-calls), one critic called her 'corpulent' and 'podgy'. Olga Preobrajenskaya as the Columbine doll was panned by one critic as 'completely insipid' and praised as 'charming' by another.described the choreography of the battle scene as confusing: 'One can not understand anything.
Disorderly pushing about from corner to corner and running backwards and forwards – quite amateurish.' The libretto was criticized as 'lopsided' and for not being faithful to the Hoffmann tale. Much of the criticism focused on the featuring of children so prominently in the ballet, and many bemoaned the fact that the ballerina did not dance until the near the end of the second act (which did not occur until nearly midnight during the program). Some found the transition between the mundane world of the first scene and the fantasy world of the second act too abrupt.
Reception was better for Tchaikovsky's score. Some critics called it 'astonishingly rich in detailed inspiration' and 'from beginning to end, beautiful, melodious, original, and characteristic'. But this also was not unanimous as some critics found the party scene 'ponderous' and the Grand Pas de Deux 'insipid'. Subsequent productions. As the Sugar Plum Fairy and as Prince Coqueluche in the Grand pas de deux in the original production of The Nutcracker., Saint Petersburg, c. 1900In 1919, choreographer staged a production which eliminated the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and gave their dances to Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, who were played by adults instead of children. This was the first production to do so.
An abridged version of the ballet was first performed outside Russia in Budapest (Royal Opera House) in 1927, with choreography by Ede Brada. In 1934, choreographer staged a version of the work that addressed many of the criticisms of the original 1892 production by casting adult dancers in the roles of Clara and the Prince, as Gorsky had. The Vainonen version influenced several later productions.The first complete performance outside Russia took place in England in 1934, staged by after Petipa's original choreography. Annual performances of the ballet have been staged there since 1952. Another abridged version of the ballet, performed by the, was staged in in 1940, – again, after Petipa's version. The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the, staged by its artistic director, and starring Gisella Caccialanza as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Jocelyn Vollmar as the Snow Queen. After the enormous success of this production, San Francisco Ballet has presented Nutcracker every Christmas Eve and throughout the winter season, debuting new productions in 1944, 1954, 1967, and 2004.
The gave its first annual performance of 's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954. Beginning in the 1960s, the tradition of performing the complete ballet at Christmas eventually spread to the rest of the United States.Since Gorsky, Vainonen and Balanchine's productions, many other choreographers have made their own versions. Some institute the changes made by Gorsky and Vainonen while others, like Balanchine, utilize the original libretto. Some notable productions include those by for the, for the, for the, for starting in 1983, and for the and the.
In recent years, revisionist productions, including those by, and have appeared; these depart radically from both the original 1892 libretto and Vainonen's revival, while 's version completely discards the original plot and characters. In addition to annual live stagings of the work, many productions have also been televised and/or released on home video. Roles The following extrapolation of the characters (in order of appearance) is drawn from an examination of the stage directions in the score.
Konstantin Ivanov's original sketch for the set of The Nutcracker (1892)It is Christmas Eve. Family and friends have gathered in the parlor to decorate the beautiful Christmas tree in preparation for the party. Once the tree is finished, the children are sent for. They stand in awe of the tree sparkling with candles and decorations.The party begins. A march is played.
Presents are given out to the children. Suddenly, as the owl-topped grandmother clock strikes eight, a mysterious figure enters the room.
It is Drosselmeyer, a local councilman, magician, and Clara's godfather. He is also a talented toymaker who has brought with him gifts for the children, including four lifelike dolls who dance to the delight of all. He then has them put away for safekeeping.Clara and Fritz are sad to see the dolls being taken away, but Drosselmeyer has yet another toy for them: a wooden carved in the shape of a little man. The other children ignore it, but Clara immediately takes a liking to it. Fritz, however, breaks it, and Clara is heartbroken.During the night, after everyone else has gone to bed, Clara returns to the parlor to check on her beloved nutcracker. As she reaches the little bed, the clock strikes midnight and she looks up to see Drosselmeyer perched atop it. Suddenly, mice begin to fill the room and the Christmas tree begins to grow to dizzying heights.
The nutcracker also grows to life size. Clara finds herself in the midst of a battle between an army of gingerbread soldiers and the mice, led by their king. They begin to eat the soldiers.The nutcracker appears to lead the soldiers, who are joined by, and by dolls who serve as doctors to carry away the wounded. As the Mouse King advances on the still-wounded nutcracker, Clara throws her slipper at him, distracting him long enough for the nutcracker to stab him.Scene 2: A Pine ForestThe mice retreat and the nutcracker is transformed into a handsome Prince.
He leads Clara through the moonlit night to a pine forest in which the snowflakes dance around them, beckoning them on to his kingdom as the first act ends. Act II Scene 1: The Land of Sweets. Ivan Vsevolozhsky's original costume designs for Mother Gigogne and her Polichinelle children, 1892Clara and the Prince travel to the beautiful Land of Sweets, ruled by the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Prince's place until his return. He recounts for her how he had been saved from the Mouse King by Clara and transformed back into himself.In honor of the young heroine, a celebration of sweets from around the world is produced: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, tea from China, and candy canes from Russia all dance for their amusement; Danish shepherdesses perform on their flutes; Mother Ginger has her children, the Polichinelles, emerge from under her enormous hoop skirt to dance; a string of beautiful flowers perform a waltz. To conclude the night, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier perform a dance.A final waltz is performed by all the sweets, after which the Sugar Plum Fairy ushers Clara and the Prince down from their throne. He bows to her, she kisses Clara goodbye, and leads them to a reindeer drawn sleigh.
It takes off as they wave goodbye to all the subjects who wave back.In the original libretto, the ballet's apotheosis 'represents a large beehive with flying bees, closely guarding their riches'. Just like, there have been various alternative endings created in productions subsequent to the original.Musical sources and influences.
Marche. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ending altered from ballet-version. Russian Dance. Arabian Dance. Chinese Dance.
Reed Flutes. Waltz of the FlowersGrainger: Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz, for solo piano The Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz is a successful piano arrangement from one of the movements from The Nutcracker by the pianist and composer.Pletnev: Concert suite from The Nutcracker, for solo piano The pianist and conductor adapted some of the music into a virtuosic concert suite for piano solo.
For a comprehensive list of stage, film and television adaptations, see. Film Several films having little or nothing to do with the ballet or the original Hoffmann tale have used its music:. The 1940 animated film features a segment using. — Sarah Kaufman, dance critic for. In 2010, dance critic for (who had previously taken Kaufman to task for her criticism of The Nutcracker ) began The Nutcracker Chronicles, a series of blog articles documenting his travels across the United States to see different productions of the ballet.Act I of The Nutcracker ends with snow falling and snowflakes dancing. Yet The Nutcracker is now seasonal entertainment even in parts of America where snow seldom falls: Hawaii, the California coast, Florida.
Over the last 70 years this ballet—conceived in the Old World—has become an American institution. Its amalgam of children, parents, toys, a Christmas tree, snow, sweets and Tchaikovsky’s astounding score is integral to the season of good will that runs from Thanksgiving to New Year. I am a European who lives in America, and I never saw any Nutcracker until I was 21. Since then I’ve seen it many times. The importance of this ballet to America has become a phenomenon that surely says as much about this country as it does about this work of art. So this year I'm running a Nutcracker marathon: taking in as many different American productions as I can reasonably manage in November and December, from coast to coast (more than 20, if all goes well).
America is a country I’m still discovering; let The Nutcracker be part of my research. — Alastair Macauley, dance critic for Popular music. The song 'Dance Mystique' (track B1) on the studio album ′′′′ (1964) by the is an Jazz adaptation of Coffee (Arabian Dance). The song 'Fall Out' by English band from their 1998 album heavily relies on the celesta theme from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The song ' by American singer-songwriter samples the melody of Dance of the Reed Flutes (Danish ) which is often mistaken for Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
The song also relied on the lesser known harp cadenza from Waltz of the Flowers. The same Tchaikovsky sample was earlier used in internationally famous 1992 ads for with Madonna voice as singing chocolate bar (in Russian version ).See also.References.
Contents.Composition After the success of in 1890, 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. 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 's story ', by 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 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. Tchaikovsky composed parts of The Nutcracker in. History Saint Petersburg premiere. The original production of The Nutcracker, 1892The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, on 18 December 6 December 1892, at the in Saint Petersburg,. Although the libretto was by, who exactly choreographed the first production has been debated. Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892; however, illness removed him from its completion and his assistant of seven years, was brought in. Although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa.
The performance was conducted by Italian composer, with as the Sugar Plum Fairy, as Prince Coqueluche, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, as the Nutcracker-Prince, and as Drosselmeyer. Unlike in many later productions, the children's roles were performed by real children – students of the, with Belinskaya as Clara, and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz – rather than adults.The first performance of The Nutcracker was not deemed a success. The reaction to the dancers themselves was ambivalent. While some critics praised Dell'Era on her as the Sugar Plum Fairy (she allegedly received five curtain-calls), one critic called her 'corpulent' and 'podgy'. Olga Preobrajenskaya as the Columbine doll was panned by one critic as 'completely insipid' and praised as 'charming' by another.described the choreography of the battle scene as confusing: 'One can not understand anything. Disorderly pushing about from corner to corner and running backwards and forwards – quite amateurish.' The libretto was criticized as 'lopsided' and for not being faithful to the Hoffmann tale.
Much of the criticism focused on the featuring of children so prominently in the ballet, and many bemoaned the fact that the ballerina did not dance until the near the end of the second act (which did not occur until nearly midnight during the program). Some found the transition between the mundane world of the first scene and the fantasy world of the second act too abrupt. Reception was better for Tchaikovsky's score. Some critics called it 'astonishingly rich in detailed inspiration' and 'from beginning to end, beautiful, melodious, original, and characteristic'. But this also was not unanimous as some critics found the party scene 'ponderous' and the Grand Pas de Deux 'insipid'. Subsequent productions. As the Sugar Plum Fairy and as Prince Coqueluche in the Grand pas de deux in the original production of The Nutcracker., Saint Petersburg, c.
1900In 1919, choreographer staged a production which eliminated the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and gave their dances to Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, who were played by adults instead of children. This was the first production to do so. An abridged version of the ballet was first performed outside Russia in Budapest (Royal Opera House) in 1927, with choreography by Ede Brada. In 1934, choreographer staged a version of the work that addressed many of the criticisms of the original 1892 production by casting adult dancers in the roles of Clara and the Prince, as Gorsky had. The Vainonen version influenced several later productions.The first complete performance outside Russia took place in England in 1934, staged by after Petipa's original choreography. Annual performances of the ballet have been staged there since 1952.
Another abridged version of the ballet, performed by the, was staged in in 1940, – again, after Petipa's version. The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the, staged by its artistic director, and starring Gisella Caccialanza as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Jocelyn Vollmar as the Snow Queen. After the enormous success of this production, San Francisco Ballet has presented Nutcracker every Christmas Eve and throughout the winter season, debuting new productions in 1944, 1954, 1967, and 2004. The gave its first annual performance of 's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954. Beginning in the 1960s, the tradition of performing the complete ballet at Christmas eventually spread to the rest of the United States.Since Gorsky, Vainonen and Balanchine's productions, many other choreographers have made their own versions. Some institute the changes made by Gorsky and Vainonen while others, like Balanchine, utilize the original libretto.
Some notable productions include those by for the, for the, for the, for starting in 1983, and for the and the. In recent years, revisionist productions, including those by, and have appeared; these depart radically from both the original 1892 libretto and Vainonen's revival, while 's version completely discards the original plot and characters. In addition to annual live stagings of the work, many productions have also been televised and/or released on home video. Roles The following extrapolation of the characters (in order of appearance) is drawn from an examination of the stage directions in the score.
Konstantin Ivanov's original sketch for the set of The Nutcracker (1892)It is Christmas Eve. Family and friends have gathered in the parlor to decorate the beautiful Christmas tree in preparation for the party. Once the tree is finished, the children are sent for.
They stand in awe of the tree sparkling with candles and decorations.The party begins. A march is played. Presents are given out to the children. Suddenly, as the owl-topped grandmother clock strikes eight, a mysterious figure enters the room. It is Drosselmeyer, a local councilman, magician, and Clara's godfather. He is also a talented toymaker who has brought with him gifts for the children, including four lifelike dolls who dance to the delight of all.
He then has them put away for safekeeping.Clara and Fritz are sad to see the dolls being taken away, but Drosselmeyer has yet another toy for them: a wooden carved in the shape of a little man. The other children ignore it, but Clara immediately takes a liking to it.
Fritz, however, breaks it, and Clara is heartbroken.During the night, after everyone else has gone to bed, Clara returns to the parlor to check on her beloved nutcracker. As she reaches the little bed, the clock strikes midnight and she looks up to see Drosselmeyer perched atop it. Suddenly, mice begin to fill the room and the Christmas tree begins to grow to dizzying heights. The nutcracker also grows to life size. Clara finds herself in the midst of a battle between an army of gingerbread soldiers and the mice, led by their king. They begin to eat the soldiers.The nutcracker appears to lead the soldiers, who are joined by, and by dolls who serve as doctors to carry away the wounded.
As the Mouse King advances on the still-wounded nutcracker, Clara throws her slipper at him, distracting him long enough for the nutcracker to stab him.Scene 2: A Pine ForestThe mice retreat and the nutcracker is transformed into a handsome Prince. He leads Clara through the moonlit night to a pine forest in which the snowflakes dance around them, beckoning them on to his kingdom as the first act ends. Act II Scene 1: The Land of Sweets. Ivan Vsevolozhsky's original costume designs for Mother Gigogne and her Polichinelle children, 1892Clara and the Prince travel to the beautiful Land of Sweets, ruled by the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Prince's place until his return. He recounts for her how he had been saved from the Mouse King by Clara and transformed back into himself.In honor of the young heroine, a celebration of sweets from around the world is produced: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, tea from China, and candy canes from Russia all dance for their amusement; Danish shepherdesses perform on their flutes; Mother Ginger has her children, the Polichinelles, emerge from under her enormous hoop skirt to dance; a string of beautiful flowers perform a waltz.
To conclude the night, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier perform a dance.A final waltz is performed by all the sweets, after which the Sugar Plum Fairy ushers Clara and the Prince down from their throne. He bows to her, she kisses Clara goodbye, and leads them to a reindeer drawn sleigh. It takes off as they wave goodbye to all the subjects who wave back.In the original libretto, the ballet's apotheosis 'represents a large beehive with flying bees, closely guarding their riches'. Just like, there have been various alternative endings created in productions subsequent to the original.Musical sources and influences.
Marche. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ending altered from ballet-version. Russian Dance. Arabian Dance. Chinese Dance.
Reed Flutes. Waltz of the FlowersGrainger: Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz, for solo piano The Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz is a successful piano arrangement from one of the movements from The Nutcracker by the pianist and composer.Pletnev: Concert suite from The Nutcracker, for solo piano The pianist and conductor adapted some of the music into a virtuosic concert suite for piano solo. For a comprehensive list of stage, film and television adaptations, see. Film Several films having little or nothing to do with the ballet or the original Hoffmann tale have used its music:. The 1940 animated film features a segment using.
— Sarah Kaufman, dance critic for. In 2010, dance critic for (who had previously taken Kaufman to task for her criticism of The Nutcracker ) began The Nutcracker Chronicles, a series of blog articles documenting his travels across the United States to see different productions of the ballet.Act I of The Nutcracker ends with snow falling and snowflakes dancing.
Yet The Nutcracker is now seasonal entertainment even in parts of America where snow seldom falls: Hawaii, the California coast, Florida. Over the last 70 years this ballet—conceived in the Old World—has become an American institution.
Its amalgam of children, parents, toys, a Christmas tree, snow, sweets and Tchaikovsky’s astounding score is integral to the season of good will that runs from Thanksgiving to New Year. I am a European who lives in America, and I never saw any Nutcracker until I was 21.
Since then I’ve seen it many times. The importance of this ballet to America has become a phenomenon that surely says as much about this country as it does about this work of art. So this year I'm running a Nutcracker marathon: taking in as many different American productions as I can reasonably manage in November and December, from coast to coast (more than 20, if all goes well).
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America is a country I’m still discovering; let The Nutcracker be part of my research. — Alastair Macauley, dance critic for Popular music. The song 'Dance Mystique' (track B1) on the studio album ′′′′ (1964) by the is an Jazz adaptation of Coffee (Arabian Dance). The song 'Fall Out' by English band from their 1998 album heavily relies on the celesta theme from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
The song ' by American singer-songwriter samples the melody of Dance of the Reed Flutes (Danish ) which is often mistaken for Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The song also relied on the lesser known harp cadenza from Waltz of the Flowers. The same Tchaikovsky sample was earlier used in internationally famous 1992 ads for with Madonna voice as singing chocolate bar (in Russian version ).See also.References.