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The Nutcracker
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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
( /
Shchelkunchik, 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
. It was given its première at the
Mariinsky Theatre
in
St. Petersburg
on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera
Iolanta
.
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