A ballet-féérie imagined by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and based on Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" in 1892.
It is to The Nutcracker that we owe the modern Russian ballets of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, which would have been unthinkable before.
Tchaikosky's last work marked the end of a dance style.
Until recently considered by choreographers to be a ballet for younger audiences, The Nutcracker builds a grandiose bridge between imagination and reality, between joy and anguish, between the threats of the night, which unleashes the demons of the unconscious, and the liberation of the morning, which offers the promise of a new day.
On Christmas Eve, Marie receives a present from her uncle Drosselmeyer, a Nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. At midnight, Marie is transported to a miniature world where her Nutcracker is a proud soldier who defends her from the Mouse King.

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