Yekaterina Alaieva Катерина Алаєва as “Clara”, “Nutcracker Лускунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Valery Kovtun Валерія Ковтун, National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine Національна Опера України, Kiev, Ukraine.
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