The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. libretto is adapted from E. A. Hoffmann’s story “TheNutcracker and the Mouse King” The ballet was choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
