Anastasiya Lukina Анастасия Лукина as “Masha” and Yevgeny Konovalov Евгений Коновалов as “The Nutcracker Prince”, “The Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, 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, Saint Petersburg, Russia (December 25).
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