Valeriya Isaeva Валерия Исаева as “Masha” and Rustam Iskhakov Рустам Исхаков as “Nutcracker Prince”, “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Yuri Grigorovich Юрий Григорович based on the fairy-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater Башкирский государственный театр оперы и балета, Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan.
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