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The Nutcracker
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Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes (intermission after the first act)
Two-act ballet adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
First Performance: Saint Petersburg, December 18, 1892
Summary in German and English
Abstract
On Christmas Eve, Clara‘s eccentric Uncle Drosselmeier gives her a nutcracker. In her dream it is turned into a prince, who takes her on a fantastic journey to the land of the Sugar-Plum Fairy.
Program and cast
Production: 1978: Klaus Gmeiner, 2017: Philippe Brunner / Michaela Obermayr / Johannes Stepanek
Choreographie: 1978: Leonard Salaz / Sylvia Wenschau, 2017: Johannes Stepanek
Stage setting: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costumes: Marie Luise Walek
Sculptor: Josef Magnus
Light: Alexander Proschek / Philippe Brunner
Sound: Alexander Proschek
Puppeteers: Philippe Brunner, Anne-Lise Droin, Pierre Droin, Vladimir Fediakov, Edouard Funck, Max Kiener, Marion Mayer, Emanuel Paulus, Eva Wiener, Ursula Winzer
Additional information
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
Recording: Decca 1958
Premiere: 1978
New staging: December 26, 2017
The puppets and the equipment were made in the workshops of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre
In 1893, the old-established Kaltenhausen brewery built "a restaurant and function-rooms" in the Schwarzstrasse, between the Lasser Villa (now the Mozarteum) and the theatre. The architect was Carl Demel, the master builder Valentin Ceconi. In 1897 these function-rooms were converted to the Mirabell Hotel. After World War II the Mirabell Casino was the principal tenant until 1968. Conversion work began in 1970, in order to give the Marionette Theatre a new playhouse. The former dining-room of the Mirabell Hotel was converted into an auditorium with a stage, and its rich decoration of stucco and frescoes is still impressive. There was similar stucco-work, though not quite so opulent, in the foyer, but unfortunately in the course of the 1970/71 conversion it was covered by a plasterboard ceiling. The stucco ceiling underneath was forgotten, to be rediscovered in 2000 when repairs were being carried out. In 2003 the foyer was restored to its original condition.
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