The Nutcracker
Ballet
30 Jan / 19:30 (See full schedule)
Where:
- National Theater
- Obala Kulina bana 9
- +387 33 445 138
- info@nps.ba
- www.nps.ba
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).
The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by way of Alexandre Dumas' adapted story "The Nutcracker". It was given its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta.
Director, Coreography: Konstantin Kostjukov
Conductor: Dario Vučić