St Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre

The Nutcracker


ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
(choreography by Vasily Vainonen edited by Nikolai Tsiskaridze)

Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre

Performers

Conductor:

Igor Tomashevsky

Soloists of the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre

The performance lasts 2 hours 40 minutes
The performance has two intervals

Age category 6+

Credits

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Marius Petipa after the tale Nußknacker und Mausekönig by E. T. A. Hoffmann, revised version by Vasily Vainonen
Choreography by Vasily Vainonen edited by Nikolai Tsiskaridze
Set design by Peter Okunev
Costume designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting designer: Irina Vtornikova
Video artist: Vadim Dulenko


The St Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre directed by Honoured Artist of Russia Andrian Fadeyev is a unique dance company. The theatre can take pride in its fifty-year history and is privileged to bear the name of one of the 20th century’s most outstanding Russian choreographers. Today, the St Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre is one of the country’s greatest ballet companies and it has been a recipient of St Petersburg’s loftiest theatre award the Golden Sofit, Russia’s national theatre prize the Golden Mask and the prestigious Taglioni European Ballet Award.


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