There are lots of scene changes and an exciting battle between Clara’s nutcracker doll, which comes to life, and the mouse king’s army. At the same time, they adapted the story to suit contemporary tastes. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King does not take place on Christmas Eve in a small town in Germany, but on the eve of St Nicholas, in Amsterdam, around 1810. Choreographed by Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayk, the ballet is now also, in a slightly adapted version, part of the repertoires of several companies abroad.įor their version for Dutch National Ballet, Eagling and Van Schayk chose to take a purely Dutch approach to the story.
The Amsterdam version, entitled The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, is regarded by connoisseurs as one of the most beautiful productions of the ballet ever, and it is a milestone in Dutch theatre history. Nowadays, productions of Nutcracker are performed all over the world, especially at Christmas time. The first version of the ballet The Nutcracker premiered in St Petersburg in 1892.
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