The Nutcracker

Tickets for the ballet The Nutcracker (Lo Schiaccianoci) at Teatro alla Scala 2024 – 2025

The expressive dance season at La Scala in Milan begins with the expressive dance The Nutcracker (Lo Schiaccinoci). It is likewise a praise to the extraordinary artist and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, on the 30th commemoration of his passing. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s fantasy expressive dance The Nutcracker debuted in Saint Petersburg in 1892. The famous expressive dance is a standard installation at numerous theaters, particularly around Christmas time. Nureyev had fostered his own movement for La Scala in Milan.

The lyrics by Alexandre Dumas depends on a French rendition of the fantasy The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The expressive dance captivates in the verifiable creation with fantastic snowflakes and battles among mice and toy officers.

The wonderful dances and the unprecedented pas-de-deux go with the fantasy of Clara and her ruler. An expressive dance that is continuously moving and places youthful and old in a supernatural Christmas mind-set. Come to Milan and be captivated by the Nutcracker in quite possibly of the most gorgeous auditorium on the planet.

The ballet “The Nutcracker” at Teatro alla Scala features choreography and direction by Rudolf Nureyev, with music by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij. The sets and costumes are designed by Nicholas Geōrgiadīs, and the lighting is managed by Andrea Giretti. Valery Ovsyanikov serves as the conductor, with Hugo Marchand as the guest artist for the performances on December 18 and 20.