Critics: “The Nutcracker is terrible and cannot be classified as a ballet.” Stravinsky and Nijinsky: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.” 😂
@culbycove496311 ай бұрын
One critic after the Rite premiere: “Ow my leg”
@kartikazoldyck79465 жыл бұрын
this deserves more views! great job! i love your work
@Oddquartet5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 🙏
@karinabreyer98324 жыл бұрын
Who else is here because they have nutcracker auditions in a few months and ARE SO PUMPED! Just me. Okay
@master-baiter223 жыл бұрын
Nope I’m forced against my will to watch this for choir
@wongpy95933 жыл бұрын
me! im already in but my teacher wants me to get into character. apparently im not spanish enough xD
@gabrielleangelica19772 жыл бұрын
Good luck! 🍀
@kmlumd442 жыл бұрын
Audition to work passing out popcorn there
@skyfast6102 жыл бұрын
nahh I'll have English test on nutcracker
@brianhan94835 жыл бұрын
Love your work! Although theory interests me, I really like your music history videos!
@bruhmaster69159 ай бұрын
I just watched the nutcracker and I was sitting there thinking “there’s gotta be an analysis of this bc I’m kinda confused by who’s who.”
@Macvriendin4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this historical background story of the Nutcracker! 👍
@dottieclogg85762 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your thorough background and well produced video on The Nutcracker. I will be using it in my elementary music class.
@akshaygiram4 жыл бұрын
Good work. Such stuff is hard for us to find. Thanks for the presentations.
@markbeck83842 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Could you tell us where the Swan Lake story came from, and if the original version had an altered story. I heard once that there was originally an evil stepmother?? Also, is there a definitive ending? I've seen lots of versions.
@curtthegamer934 Жыл бұрын
The evil stepmother thing is a stupid lie that's been copied to several different articles as if it's a fact (mostly because a lot of people don't bother reading the book to verify it). Marie had a normal family. There was no evil stepmother. I've seen that lie appear in so many articles now that it's not even funny.
@Topdoggie76 ай бұрын
No evil stepmother in Nutcracker.
@TheRadioAteMyTV Жыл бұрын
Alexander was no DumAs
@matthewtravisano10972 жыл бұрын
Hold up. ‘The Nutrcacker’ was popularized in the U.S. way before Balanchine. Lew Christensen and San Francisco Ballet reintroduced it into the standard repertoire in 1944. San Francisco Ballet’s is the longest continuous professional staging of the work.
@laurawilson91634 жыл бұрын
My whole life, 53 years, I’ve only known “Clara” as the main character. Who is this Marie?!?!? When did she come into the picture?
@simondesbiens24634 жыл бұрын
Marie was her original names that all
@PlaceForFaith3 жыл бұрын
In the book her name is Maria. Clara was the name of one of her dolls that came to life during the mouse king fight. I think people liked the name Clara more and switched it.
@davemorgan60133 жыл бұрын
In Hoffmann's story she's called Marie, but Hoffmann wrote the story for the children of Julius Eduard Hitzig and their names were Friedrich and Clara. So, that's where Clara comes from.
@Topdoggie76 ай бұрын
1816 is when Marie started.
@Love6Justin3 жыл бұрын
Could you do one on swan lake? :) that was fascinating thank u
@IKongILoX2 жыл бұрын
Very educational video! Thank you a lot ! Helped a lot for the preparation for my first ever Ballet
@lizbajork80183 жыл бұрын
I’m watching the nutcracker from the Rochester NY ballet company streaming. It is beautiful!
@siewheilou3999 ай бұрын
So it is only since 1954 that Nutcracker is accepted as a ballet performance?
@thewonderfulworldofderek60874 жыл бұрын
30th anniversary years nutcracker history home review Intrvew 50th anniversary celebration
@ElenaBeges4 жыл бұрын
Great video! I know nutcracker originally premiered in us in San Francisco in the 40s. Per this movie, that would have been before balanchines staging. So, nutcracker was still widespread and hade some popularity before Balanchine - yes? Did San Francisco and other companies change their staging after balanchines nutcracker?
@Raghallach4 жыл бұрын
it was first performed in Saint Petersburg Russia on 18 December 1892, not San Francisco in the 40's.
@andrushkalm3 жыл бұрын
Yes, very much so. It was dropped from the Imperial Theater around one year after the premiere and revived a few times after that. In 1919, Alexander Gorsky made his production for the Bolshoi Theater, making a lot of changes in the original Petipa/Ivanov choreography. Also in 1934, Vainonen made his famous version of the ballet for the Kirov (Mariinsky Theater) in St. Petersburg, which is danced to this day. The changes Gorsky made were kept and taken to almost every other production that came after his. So yes, The Nutcracker was very widespread before Balanchine.
@andrushkalm3 жыл бұрын
Balanchine himself danced the original Petipa production, keeping some original parts to his own production. Which makes me understand why The Nutcracker was so hated at the time. I personally don’t like Balanchine’s version.
@yomattty4 жыл бұрын
Here from Ellie's channel! WOW! what playlist!
@Ariana-ch1ku4 жыл бұрын
I just got casted as clara🥰
@Marg-sy4jt25 күн бұрын
Congrats 👏 👏 👏 🎉
@ruben14753 жыл бұрын
Yesterday I saw the Royal Opera's 2016 performance of The Nutcracker, and while I loved it I can understand why it flopped at the premiere. While Act 1 was reasonably well paced storywise, in my opinion Act 2 just seemed to drag on without going anywhere. I think the story was more like a framework for the music and ballet instead of vice versa, but I respect that because it is still wonderful.
@davemorgan60133 жыл бұрын
It's not unusual for the final act of ballets to be just a series of divertissements with no real plot. Delibes' ballet Coppelia is another example of that.
@ViktorVaughn.3 жыл бұрын
hoffman is real champ
@liamorourke24452 жыл бұрын
i’m seeing this play at butler university in indiana today. i’m excited
@RolanDevious4 жыл бұрын
i heard the nutcracker music odd quartet at 6:40 the nutcracker music sounds like the volume is low i can still hear it
@capribreezee2 жыл бұрын
The ballet was like the first collab
@6harrylotter7855 жыл бұрын
The Nutcracker, please. The Nutshack... now that was a masterpiece The Nut Job... that was a true beauty.....
@noahperkins35 жыл бұрын
lmao
@octahedron1155 жыл бұрын
Do the entry of the gladiators
@jamesaldrich71332 жыл бұрын
But Tchaikovsky your one of the reasons for the nutcracker story existence
@rockinresurrection6542 Жыл бұрын
Nah not really. Only the music
@Topdoggie76 ай бұрын
Just the music.
@thewonderfulworldofderek60874 жыл бұрын
1993 movie wb studios years History
@nataliya264110 ай бұрын
Thank you from Moscow.
@whatchrisdoinmusic16 күн бұрын
I love videos like this!
@user-eu3op7or6v9 ай бұрын
So interesting 🧐
@ileilanambingaamtheleader11544 жыл бұрын
Time 1:04 The Stahlbaum family are the Kuso family(Bakugan). Marie is Dan Kuso, the 7 headed mouse King is Gordegon from Season 4 of Bakugan. The Nutcracker/Prince is Drago makes sense both turned into another shape and then grow bigger later on. Time 1:54 is New Vestroia :)
@hoochrocks Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this.
@dan0203507 ай бұрын
❤
@171QA2 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@williamokafor17503 жыл бұрын
6:44
@danamarvelstar2 жыл бұрын
So where does the name Clara come in?
@curtthegamer934 Жыл бұрын
I have never been able to figure it out. I've always been puzzled as to why the name was changed at all, since you never hear the names spoken on stage anyway, so anybody who isn't already aware of the names would probably just call her "the girl" or "the protagonist." I've seen her variously called, depending on the performance, Marie, Maria, Mary, Masha, Clara, and Klara. Clara is the most common name, but it's not even always the one used today in every production. Also, I still refer to the character as Marie because I grew up on the original book.
@Topdoggie76 ай бұрын
1900s area, added in as it aged.
@williamokafor17503 жыл бұрын
1:32
@avidnongetit87104 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Very well done. I still only like 4 musicals though 1 Westside Story 2 Rocky Horror Picture show 2 Tommy 4 Jesus Christ superstar 5 Hair Spray Yup I'm old
@mytoenailjustfelloff89974 жыл бұрын
avid Non you do realise that a ballett has absolutely nothing to do with a musical right? Theyre in no way comparable...
@karinabreyer98324 жыл бұрын
Mytoenail Justfelloff Actually they are very comparable. They aren’t super similar tho. Tho not have music, dancing, a story to tell, etc
@Topdoggie76 ай бұрын
O L D.
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