Bibliograph

The nutcracker, ballet in two acts, Unitel Classica presents ; after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ; ballet director, Manuel Legris ; choreographer and stage director, Rudolf Nureyev ; video director, Michael Beyer ; executive producer ORF, Martin Schermann ; producer, Magdalena Herbst ; a co-production of ORF, Unitel Classica in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper

Type

Label

The nutcracker, ballet in two acts, Unitel Classica presents ; after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ; ballet director, Manuel Legris ; choreographer and stage director, Rudolf Nureyev ; video director, Michael Beyer ; executive producer ORF, Martin Schermann ; producer, Magdalena Herbst ; a co-production of ORF, Unitel Classica in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The nutcracker

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

896176651

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Recorded live at the Wiener Staatsoper, 7 October 2012

Responsibility statement

Unitel Classica presents ; after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ; ballet director, Manuel Legris ; choreographer and stage director, Rudolf Nureyev ; video director, Michael Beyer ; executive producer ORF, Martin Schermann ; producer, Magdalena Herbst ; a co-production of ORF, Unitel Classica in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper

Runtime

102

Sub title

ballet in two acts

Summary

"The Wiener Staatsballett is one of the great companies of the world. Yet never before had Rudolf Nureyev's world-famous choreography of The Nutcracker been performed in Vienna. The present production remedies this omission by presenting Nureyev's final, 1985 Paris version with two magnificent young soloists and the splendid Vienna corps de ballet. Nureyev's version enjoys a particular standing in the history of this well-known ballet in that it was the first to incorporate the psychology of E.T. A Hoffman's fairy tale on which Tchaikovsky's ballet is based"--Container

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

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Rudolf Nureyev's The nutcracker