The National Dance Company, the most important of the country, and the OSY close this season with a grand finale: the performance of the expected king of ballet, the great fairytale: The Nutcracker, composed between 1891 and 1892, with a choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, the most performed play of the genre, the classic of classics, that takes us into the warm ambient of Christmas.

The Nutcracker, ballet fairytale structured in two acts, which was commissioned by the director of the Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky on 1891 and was premiered on 1892. The music was composed by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between 1891 and 1982. It is his opus 71 and the third of his ballets. In the original production, the choreography was created by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The libretto was written by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Petipa himself, based in the adaptation by Alejandro Dumas of the story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

AUTHOR:

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

DIRECTOR:

Juan Carlos Lomónaco

CAST:

Orquesta SInfónica de Yucatán y Compañía Nacional de Danza