Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Marius Petipa / Patrice Bart, choreography
Luisa Spinatelli, set designs, costumes
Maurizio Montobbio, lighting
Nadja Saidakova
Olivier Matz
Vladimir Malakhov
Béatrice Knop
Viara Natcheva
Törsten Händler
Barbara Schroeder
Kira Kirillova
Steffen Neumann
Soloists and Ballet of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Staatskapelle Berlin
TV Director: Alexandre Tarta
Recorded at the Staatsoper Berlin (Germany)
© Bel Air Media / ZDF / Arte / NHK / VTHR / MUZZIK – 1999
In this 1999 production, Daniel Barenboim directs the orchestra of the Staatskapelle Berlinproduced. Patrice Bart reinvents the choreography of Marius Petipa especially for the selected soloists and the corps de ballet of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin!
The Nutcracker is a ballet in two acts, composed by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on a libretto adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was premiered in 1892 in Saint Petersburg, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta. Following the success…
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