Published on Dec 28, 2014

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Genre: Dance & Ballet

Dates: Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Venue: Poly Theatre

Prices: 100, 200, 300, 500, 800, 1280

Features: The Russian National Ballet Theatre brings three of the most memorable and enchanting ballets to Beijing during the Spring Festival, the full-length classical ballet of The Nutcracker will perform in Poly theatre on February 24th, 2015.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The Nutcracker, is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, 18 December 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta.

Although the original production was not a success, the twenty-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 the U.S. Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. 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.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre
The Russian National Ballet Theatre got a new lease of life when it was re-registered and renamed in 2001. However, it is steeped in the ancient ballet tradition of its predecessor Russian Theatre Ballet Ensemble, which was established Oct. 22, 1878.

Boasting more than 60 ballet dancers and a team of celebrated masters of Russian ballet, including People's Artists of the former Soviet Union — Igor Moiseev, R. Struchkova, M. Lavrovsky and Y. Vladimirov, the ballet theater has injected new life into traditional ballet.

Now the theater's repertoire includes not only classical performances such as "Swan Lake," "Nutcracker," "Sleeping Beauty," "Scotland Suite," "Don Quixote," "Romeo and Juliette" and "Gala Concert," but also modern ballets to the music of Mozart, Bach, Ravel and others.

In recent years, the theater has toured many countries including the United States, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Norway and China.

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