Enjoy a performance of The Nutcracker ballet at the recently refurbished Broadway Theatre in Prague. The two-act ballet was 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 storey, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by way of Alexander Dumas' adapted storey The Nutcracker.
The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, Iolanta, in December 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Directory, Choreography: Monika a Alexander Kysil according to the draft by M. Petipa
Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky
Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes (15-minute intermission)
Ballet soloists
Nutcracker: Slava Burlac, Ondrej Novotny (Karel Audy, Miroslav Hradil)
Klara: Magdalena Matejkova, Andrea Kramesova
Uncle Drosselmayer: Milan Bocek, Radek Vratil (Michal Holanek)