Ballet

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

The Nutcracker


The nutcracker was a ballet that was written by E.T.A. Hoffman. The nutcracker was a story about a German girl who dreams of a nutcracker prince who fights in a fierce battle against a mouse king with seven heads. The ballet has a lot of music composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He composed the Nutcracker in 1892. The Nutcracker is usually performed in the late November until Christmas. There were many children in the ballet. The most recent child that played Clara was Emily Gotschall in 1995. The complete ballet did not achieve its great popularity until around the mid-1960’s. If you would like to find out more about this ballet then visit this website. http://www.nutcrackerballet.net/html/nutcracker_story.html

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