Ballet by Christian Spuck after the eponymous fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Choreography: Christian Spuck
Stage design: Rufus Didwiszus
Costumes: Buki Shiff
Light-Design: Martin Gebhardt
Chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger
Dramaturgy: Michael Küster, Claus Spahn
Ballet: Ballett Zürich, Junior Ballett
Anyone who thinks of Piotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet music for The Nutcracker will immediately hear the magical sound of the celesta that accompanies the famous dance of the sugar plum fairy, and will see before their mind’s eye the splendour of a room decorated for Christmas, dancing snowflakes and the momentum of the waltz of the flowers. Tchaikovsky’s music is imaginative, vivid and incisive, and has made the Nutcracker one of the most popular works of the ballet repertoire. Behind the catchy melodies is the story of the girl Marie, who – under the spell of Christmas present-giving – works herself up into an eerie, feverish dream during which toy figures and sweetmeats come to life and become involved in a battle with dangerous mice, at the end of which the victorious wooden nutcracker emerges as Marie’s Prince Charming. The plot of The Nutcracker is based on a fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann, which lost much of its darkly romantic mystery in its adaptation as a ballet libretto. The second act of the ballet, for example, consists only of a divertissement that has almost no plot, featuring a colourful sequence of dances and stage effects. Hoffmann, by contrast, continues to develop the plot and tells a fairy tale within the fairy tale (which is omitted in the ballet) and to oscillate cleverly between imagination and reality. In his new production of this large-scale classic ballet, Christian Spuck is more interested in the fantastical nature of the original story than in the delightful Christmas fairy tale. He combines Tchaikovsky’s music with the demonic, humour, the bizarre and the diverse range of figures that inhabit Hoffmann’s story.
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