The Nutcracker, Op.71 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Op. 71, is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was premiered in 1892, and its score holds the character dances and divertissements. The ballet keeps company with Tchaikovsky's other stage works, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but its Christmas-party story and its sequence of short characteristic dances give it a shape of its own. The catalog entry is a community arrangement of a single number, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. That dance belongs to the ballet; it is not the whole of Op. 71.
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The Nutcracker, Op. 71, is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was premiered in 1892, and its score holds the character dances and divertissements.
The ballet keeps company with Tchaikovsky's other stage works, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but its Christmas-party story and its sequence of short characteristic dances give it a shape of its own.
The catalog entry is a community arrangement of a single number, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. That dance belongs to the ballet; it is not the whole of Op. 71.