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Anastasia Matvienko Анастасия Матвиенко as “Masha”, “The Nutcracker”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, 2021 Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany.
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