May Nagahisa 永久メイ as “Masha” and Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин as “Nutcracker Prince”, “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 (1934), music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе (1954), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (probably on January 14).
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