The Nutcracker (Christensen)
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The Nutcracker can refer to two different settings of The Nutcracker
by brothers Willam and Lew Christensen:
The Nutcracker
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...
by brothers Willam and Lew Christensen:
- The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen)The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen)Tchaikovsky's now-classic ballet The Nutcracker received its first complete production in the U.S. on December 24, 1944. This production used the ballet's original plot, and it was performed by the San Francisco Ballet and choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier...
(1944) - The Nutcracker (Lew Christensen) (1944)