New Year Performances. 20 minutes with Father Frost. Before each performance in December young spectators will meet Father Frost and the Snow Maiden in the theatre's foyer, sing and dance around the Christmas Tree and have a lot of fun!Stage Director Alla Sigalova and designer Pavel Kaplevich has suggested a bold idea to adapt the legendary ballet The Nutcracker to an opera.
Alla Sigallova, stage director:
“To me this production is a gift from above. I am happy to work with Tchaikovsky’s music, with talented people, I am glad to be back at the Novaya Opera as I keep beautiful memories of Evgeny Kolobov and outstanding singers, chorus members, who created amazing images in /La traviata 16 years ago. I am grateful to everyone who worked on The Nutcracker because it was a great responsibility. We gave birth to a new work, bringing into it our warmth, our cordiality, our experience and our childhood memories.”/ Igor Kadomtsev, author of the musical version: Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is the best ballet score in the world. It is a classic example of specifically ballet dramaturgy when the action takes part in Act 1, while Act 2 is basically a concert in costumes. The producers of the opera divided the action between the two acts, that is why their borders have changed and some numbers from original Act 2 have moved to Act 1. For example, in our version the Nutcracker meets the dolls in Act 1 and his fight with the mice turns out to be Masha’s dream. So we had to swap a few numbers and make decorative cuts. I dare say that many choreographers interpreted /The Nutcracker’s drama in their own way./
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