The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
NR 2 hr 20 min
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls In 1892 the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas pères adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker which became one of Tchaikovskys most famous compositions and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world

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