Marie, una niña de 7 años, tiene como padrino al tío Drosselmeyer, un hombre algo excéntrico -con peluca de cristal, un parche en el ojo y un abrigo amarillo-, que construye unos juguetes magníficos y que siempre le trae regalos estupendos. En navidad, uno de los presentes que lleva a la casa de Marie es un muñeco Cascanueces, el cual cautiva a la pequeña. Este muñeco parece cobrar vida y Marie se ve inmersa en una batalla en la que los contrincantes son este Cascanueces y el Rey de los ratones. Al percatarse de ello el único afán de esta niña es proteger a su querido Cascanueces y salvarlo de todo mal. Seremos partícipes de la lucha con este Rey Ratón de siete cabezas, conoceremos la historia de La Nuez dura (que nos ayudará a entender quién es realmente este Cascanueces) y visitaremos el Reino de los Juguetes, bastante apetecible por cierto (sí, sí, apetecible).

Petipa designed the dances. He gave Tchaikovsky special directions about how the music was to be written. For example, he wanted a great crescendo of 48 bars as the Christmas tree rose higher and higher in Act 1. He wrote that the music for the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" should sound like drops of water splashing in a fountain. [3] The audience gets right up close to the action, where the Sugar Plum Fairy is joined by some new faces, including Action Man, for an hourlong, sequin-filled ‘snowstorm of fun’ ( Time Out). I feel like I’m having a similar reaction that I did when reading The Wizard Of Oz ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), but I liked that one more. Yes, yes, he's supposed to be ugly. But a character voiced by Keifer Sutherland could never be ugly!Alina Somova & Vladimir Shklyarov (2012). Sugarplum and Cavalier variations. St Petersburg, Russia: Ovation. The Disco Biscuits, a trance-fusion jam band from Philadelphia, have performed "Waltz of the Flowers" and "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" on multiple occasions.

story by E. T. A. Hoffmann Original publication in 1816 in Berlin in the collection Kinder-Mährchen, Children's Stories, by In der Realschulbuchhandlung.

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En mi caso, no tenía ni idea de la historia ni de lo que sería la trama en sí, ya que ni he visto el ballet (tan solo había escuchado la música compuesta por el mismo Chaikovski) y ni he leído el cuento original alemán. Pero bueno, después de pensármelo dos veces decidí que quería leer algo escrito por Dumas (padre) antes de aventurarme más tarde este año con su obra maestra, El conde de Montecristo, y qué buena experiencia me llevé tras terminar esta obra. A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", 1823) attributed to Clement Clarke Moore

Brown, David. Tchaikovsky: The Final Years, 1885-1893. London, 1991; corrected edition 1992: p. 386 The illustrations were good, but not good enough to make me swoon. The story was not quite to my taste and, in fact, a bit weird. If Marie was only seven at the beginning, how did she get betrothed at the end? She would have been eight by the time they got married.Up to two children under 16 can attend half price with each full paying adult, valid for prices A – C on Wednesday evening, Thursday evening and Saturday matinee