Moscow Ballet Nutcracker Great Falls Mt
Joseph Zyiuahndy
It's a story of a girl who falls in love with her nutcracker prince. The show is danced to Tchaikovsky's famous score and features 200 all new costumes. Costumes made of silk, each hand sewn with appliques.
Alexia has studied under some of the greats herself, including Rudolph Kharatian, Mr. Zimmelerov, Madame Vinogradova, Madame Kolpakova. She was fortunate enough to be the little sister of two extraordinary male dancers who themselves studied under great ballet masters. She has performed at The Kennedy Center and with Ballet Paradiso.
It was a very first time I saw ballet performance from Russia last year. I was so excited to see them. I love it enough to go again for the second round this year. I got the pre-sales tickets on the second days once its open to public. So I am able to get two front row seats at a reasonable price. I am very excited to look forward seeing them again in November. Although it was a great experience, it did not fully meet my expectation. The performance was lack of high level technical jumping and turnings. Having said that, the costumes were beautiful. It definitely worth to see it for yourself. At last, the Queen Elizabeth Theater has a poor air circulations system. I got an headache in the second half of the show due to the bad air and a full house attendance.
The story centers on a young girl Masha and her Christmas Eve celebration. Presented with a Nutcracker soldier that is destroyed by her brother she falls asleep. When she awakes her nutcracker has become a Nutcracker Prince who leads her on a wondrous journey.
Our story begins on a snowy Christmas Eve, at a great townhouse where a party is in full swing. Whilst the adults talk, the children play with their presents, and the hosts' children are beside themselves with joy at the wonder of it all. There's an element of danger on the horizon though, heralded by the arrival of local magician Herr Drosselmeyer. He comes bearing gifts for the children, including a wooden nutcracker for Clara, the oldest child. However, Fritz her younger brother is jealous of the toy, and maliciously breaks the toy's jaw, to Clara's despair.
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After the success of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. The opera would be Iolanta. For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on The Sleeping Beauty. The material Vsevolozhsky chose was an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by Alexandre Dumas called "The Story of a Nutcracker".[4] The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot titled "The Tale of the Hard Nut", which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker. This had to be excised for the ballet.[5]
Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 première, forming The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, intended for concert performance. The suite was first performed, under the composer's direction, on 19 March 1892 at an assembly of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Musical Society.[46] The suite became instantly popular, with almost every number encored at its premiere,[47] while the complete ballet did not begin to achieve its great popularity until after the George Balanchine staging became a hit in New York City.[48] The suite became very popular on the concert stage, and was excerpted in Disney's Fantasia, omitting the two movements prior to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy . The outline below represents the selection and sequence of the Nutcracker Suite made by the composer:
E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale, on which the ballet is based, is troubling: Marie, a young girl, falls in love with a nutcracker doll, whom she only sees come alive when she falls asleep. ...Marie falls, ostensibly in a fevered dream, into a glass cabinet, cutting her arm badly. She hears stories of trickery, deceit, a rodent mother avenging her children's death, and a character who must never fall asleep (but of course does, with disastrous consequences). While she heals from her wound, the mouse king brainwashes her in her sleep. Her family forbids her from speaking of her "dreams" anymore, but when she vows to love even an ugly nutcracker, he comes alive and she marries him.
We are so excited to be a part of the Great Falls community. I lived in Great falls most of my childhood; it was such a magical place to grow up. I want to make it even more magical for your family by bringing classical ballet back to the heart of Great Falls center.
I am a dancer, who has danced in the nutcracker and this was a shoddy excuse for a ballet advertised as being from Moscow it seemed like 50%of the dancers were kids from Abq not ready for stage and the other 45% were young B (or C) company dancers who were still training to be professional. Then there were 2-4 dancers who were obviously beautifully trained veterans who posed for all the misleading advertisements. Don't expect the tree to grow, don't expect any snow to fall during "snow" and don't expect the choreography to make sense with the storyline or music. Also the venue doesn't close the doors and the wonderfully polite and educated people here in the Q will make sure that stand up in front of you 20-30 times so they can get a beer, popcorn or whatever. They won't duck down or wait for the scenes to switch and the venue encourages them. Let's them show up 30 min late and guides them in with flashlights.... Worst money ever spent.. Extremely boring and stressful. I want a refund!
In the story, a girl falls asleep and is magically whisked to a Christmas fantasyland, where her nutcracker has transformed into a handsome prince while lovely ballet dancers perform for her entertainment.
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Beginning Monday, Aug. 17, East Texans can purchase single event tickets to Moscow Ballet's "Great Russian Nutcracker," Liverpool Legends' Beatles tribute show, a concert by world-renowned composer and entertainer Marvin Hamlisch, or any of the other seven performances included on the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts' University Series.
Our outstanding line-up promises to be one of our most popular seasons yet," said Dr. John W. Goodall, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts. "Appropriately named 'The Ovation Season,' it will provide numerous opportunities for our patrons to applaud!"
The series will open Thursday, Sept. 17, with Twyla Robinson, an internationally acclaimed soprano who has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras and consistently earned praise for her musicianship, dramatic sensibility and vocal beauty, Goodall said.
On Thursday, Oct. 22, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present "French Focus," a program highlighted by Olivier Messiaen's famous "Quartet for the End of Time." The piano, clarinet, violin and cello players will also perform works by French composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.
From Tuesday, Nov. 17, through Saturday, Nov. 21, the SFA School of Theatre will present "Twelfth Night," William Shakespeare's comedy that involves disguise, music, trickery, mistaken identity and a bevy of unrequited loves.
The "Great Russian Nutcracker" will be presented by Moscow Ballet on Thursday, Dec. 17, and again on Friday, Dec. 18. Goodall said they sold out two performances the last time Moscow presented this holiday classic, and they are anticipating an equally enthusiastic response this year.
Liverpool Legends, billed as the "Ultimate Beatles Tribute Show," will perform songs spanning the entire career of the Fab Four and on through their solo years on Friday, Jan. 29. The group's use of precise details will make the audience feel as though they're watching the real thing, according to Goodall.
From Tuesday, March 2, through Saturday, March 6, the SFA School of Theatre will present "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's Tony Award-winning drama about the dreams every member of the Younger household is struggling to attain in the 1950s in the South Side of Chicago.
American Ballet II will perform a varied repertoire rooted in classical ballet Tuesday, March 9. The 14 dancers (ages 16 to 20) are hand picked from around the world by the artistic staff of American Ballet Theatre.
Composer Marvin Hamlisch, best known for his award-winning scores for "A Chorus Line," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting," will present a program that combines his familiar with recently written compositions on Tuesday, March 23.
The SFA Schools of Music and Theatre will present one of the masterpieces of operatic literature, sung in English, Thursday, April 15, through Saturday, April 17. The title will be announced in the fall.
The 2009-2010 University Series will close with jazz trombonist Conrad Herwig on Thursday, April 29. The much sought-after musician whom jazz great Eddie Palmieri has called "the best trombonist on the planet" will share the stage with SFA's Swingin' Axes.
All concerts and staged productions on the University Series will begin at 7:30 p.m. in W.M. Turner Auditorium, and all seats are reserved. Tickets for the touring artists range from $35 to $17.50, with discounts available for seniors, students and youth. Tickets for presentations by the SFA School of Music or Theatre range from $18 to $6.
Season tickets, which offer about a 25 percent savings, are also still on sale and available in two options, said Diane Flynn, Box Office manager. "The classic package includes one ticket to each performance, and the TixMix package allows the patrons to create their own season. The cost ranges from $125 to $185, with discounts available for seniors, students, youth and SFA faculty and staff.
The "Great Russian Nutcracker" is not included in the season package, as it is this season's "Encore Event," Flynn explained. However, season subscribers can easily add this event to their order.
For more information on the 2009-2010 season, visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu, stop by the Box Office in Room 211B of the Griffith Fine Arts Building, or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.