Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker: Ballet with Marie Lindqvist & Anders Nordström (Royal Swedish Opera, 1999)

From the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, 1999 Tchaikovsky‘s eternal classic The Nutcracker by the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Subscribe to wocomoMUSIC: Follow us on Facebook: Soloists: Uncle Blue’s Maid - Marie Lindqvist The Charcoal Burner / The Prince - Anders Nordström Peter - Jens Rosén Lotta - Alexandra Kastrinos Uncle Blue - Weit Carlsson Aunt Brown - Charlotte Stalhammar Aunt Green - Helene Perback-Lindgren Aunt Lavender - Kristin Kage The Mouse King - Mats Jansson The Snow Queen - Eva Nissen Royal Swedish Ballet Choreography by Pär Isberg Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Renat Salavtov - conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - The Nutcracker (Or Petter and Lotta’s Christmas) Chapters: 0:00 The Nutcracker (Or Petter and Lotta’s Christmas) 1:00 Overture 4:16 Act I 47:46 Act II 48:08 Act II The Magic Castle of the Land of Sweets 51:00 Act II The Arrival of Clara and the Nutcracker Prince 54:22 Act II Spanish Dance 55:45 Act II Chinese Dance 1:02:33 Act II Trepak - Russian Dance 1:03:50 Act II Pas de trois - Dance of the reed pipes 1:06:30 Act II Dance 1:09:35 Act II Waltz of the Flowers 1:15:35 Act II Pas de deux - Intrada 1:21:48 Act II Pas de deux - Tarantella 1:22:51 Act II Pas de deux - Dance of the sugar plum fairy 1:25:35 Act II Pas de deux - Coda 1:27:18 Final - Waltz and Apotheosis Among the history of the Royal Swedish Ballet, founded in 1983, the Nutcracker, was already the fifth rehearsal of this piece. It had its premiere in December 1995 and was created by the then 40-year-old Pär Isberg, who was a member of the company as a soloist and is now an international choreographer. Isberg used the children’s book Petter and Lotta and Christmas by Elsa Beskow, which is very popular in Sweden, to replace the Hoffmann characters with characters from Swedish folklore. Uncle Drosselmeier, for example, who brings the two children the Nutcracker as a Christmas present, is Uncle Blue in this case, and the Nutcracker turns out to be a charcoal burner who turns into a prince and dances the great pas de deux with the uncle’s maid at the end - a very special, fascinating reading of this timeless ballet classic. © Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution