“Nutcracker – Щелкунчик”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв, set design by Lev Solodovnikov Лев Солодовников and Elizaveta Dvorkina Елизавета Дворкина, costume design by Elizaveta Dvorkina Елизавета Дворкина, State Moscow Classical Ballet Theatre Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev, Театр классического балета Наталия Касаткина и Владимир Василёв, Moscow, Russia.
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