Not your father's NUTCRACKER

摘要

In 1816. E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German author, wrote a children's story in which a nutcracker, a young girl's favorite Christmas toy. comes alive. The nutcracker defeats an evil Mouse King in battle and whisks Mane Stahlbaum to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892. the Russian composer Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev ivanov turned an adaptation of Hoffmann's story by Alexandre Dumas into the much-loved and often-performed ballet "The Nutcracker."