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The nutcracker

Title: The nutcracker [videorecording] / co-produced by Caméras Continentales, NHK, Philips Classics Productions, and Amaya Distribution ; directed for television by Yvon Gérault ; produced by Michio Takemori ; choreography and libretto adapted by Vassily I. Vainonen after Marius Petipa ; music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Publication: U.S. : Philips Video Classics, c1994.

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Description

1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Uniform Title

Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Vaĭnonen)
Philips video classics.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Letterbox format.
Performing group called the Kirov Ballet on wrapper.
For accompanying leaflet, see *MGZR Ballet in television. The nutcracker. Includes cast and production credits, list of scenes, and two essays: John Warrack's "The 'nutcracker': a strange and complex fantasy" (in English, French, and Italian) and Brigitte Sydow-Saak's "Der Nussknacker": Einheit von Musik und Bewegungsablauf (in German only).

Credits (note)

Libretto based on the fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; design, Simon Virsaladze ; lighting, Vladimir Lukasevich ; executive producer, Béatrice Dupont.

Performer (note)

Larissa Lezhnina (Masha/the princess) ; Victor Baranov (Nutcracker/the prince) ; Piotr Russanov (Drosselmayer) ; Gennadi Babanin (Stahlbaum) ; Nina Michailova (his wife) ; Irina Gusseva and Tatiana Gumba (the children, Louisa and Franz) ; Irina Zagrebina (grandmother) ; Igor Belyaev (grandfather) ; Zinaida Alekseeva (nurse) ; Nikita Scheglov (Harlequin) ; Elvira Tarassova (dancing doll) ; Ruben Bobovnikov (black boy) ; Gennadi Babanin (king of the mice) ; Irina Zhelonkina and Elvira Tarassova (waltz of the snowflakes) ; Elena Sherstneva and Andrei Yakovlev (Spanish dance) ; Ekaterina Katkovskaya (Arabian dance) ; Tatiana Loginova and Igor Belyaev (Chinese dance) ; Irina Suvorova, Tatiana Gumba, and Piotr Russanov (Russian dance) ; Tatiana Miltseva, Elena Chmil, Artem Pykhachev (students of the Vaganova Dance School) (pas de trois) ; Irina Zhelonkina, Janna Kirova, Elena Kozyakova, Elena Dmitrieva, Artem Kokorin, Sergei Proskuryakov, Nikita Scheglov, Igor Shepelev (waltz of the flowers).

Event (note)

Recorded at the Maryinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2874

OCLC

NYPY98-F766

Title

The nutcracker [videorecording] / co-produced by Caméras Continentales, NHK, Philips Classics Productions, and Amaya Distribution ; directed for television by Yvon Gérault ; produced by Michio Takemori ; choreography and libretto adapted by Vassily I. Vainonen after Marius Petipa ; music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Imprint

U.S. : Philips Video Classics, c1994.

Performer

Danced by the Ballet of the Maryinsky Theater (Kirov Ballet).

Cast

Larissa Lezhnina (Masha/the princess) ; Victor Baranov (Nutcracker/the prince) ; Piotr Russanov (Drosselmayer) ; Gennadi Babanin (Stahlbaum) ; Nina Michailova (his wife) ; Irina Gusseva and Tatiana Gumba (the children, Louisa and Franz) ; Irina Zagrebina (grandmother) ; Igor Belyaev (grandfather) ; Zinaida Alekseeva (nurse) ; Nikita Scheglov (Harlequin) ; Elvira Tarassova (dancing doll) ; Ruben Bobovnikov (black boy) ; Gennadi Babanin (king of the mice) ; Irina Zhelonkina and Elvira Tarassova (waltz of the snowflakes) ; Elena Sherstneva and Andrei Yakovlev (Spanish dance) ; Ekaterina Katkovskaya (Arabian dance) ; Tatiana Loginova and Igor Belyaev (Chinese dance) ; Irina Suvorova, Tatiana Gumba, and Piotr Russanov (Russian dance) ; Tatiana Miltseva, Elena Chmil, Artem Pykhachev (students of the Vaganova Dance School) (pas de trois) ; Irina Zhelonkina, Janna Kirova, Elena Kozyakova, Elena Dmitrieva, Artem Kokorin, Sergei Proskuryakov, Nikita Scheglov, Igor Shepelev (waltz of the flowers).

Performer

Music performed by the orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater, conducted by Victor Fedotov.

Credits

Libretto based on the fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; design, Simon Virsaladze ; lighting, Vladimir Lukasevich ; executive producer, Béatrice Dupont.

Event

Recorded at the Maryinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Local Subject

Literature and dance.

Added Author

Lezhnina, Larissa, dancer.

Baranov, Victor, dancer.

Rusanov, Petr, dancer.

Babanin, Gennadiĭ, dancer.

Guseva, Irina (Dancer), dancer.

Gumba, Tatʹ︠i︡ana, dancer.

Shcheglov, Nikita, dancer.

Tarasova, Elvira, dancer.

Bobovnikov, Ruben, dancer.

Sherstnëva, Elena, dancer.

︠I︡Akovlev, Andreĭ, dancer.

Zhelonkina, Irina, dancer.

Katkovska︠i︡a, Ekaterina, dancer.

Loginova, Tatʹ︠i︡ana, dancer.

Bel︠i︡aev, Igorʹ, dancer.

Suvorova, Irina, dancer.

Vaĭnonen, V., choreographer. Librettist

Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910, choreographer.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822. Nussknacker und Mausekönig.

Virsaladze, Simon Bagratovich, 1909-1989. Designer. Costume designer

Luksasevich, Vladimir.

Gerault, Yvon. Director

Takemori, Michio. Producer

Dupont, Béatrice. Producer

Mariinskiĭ teatr (1991- ) Balet

Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova.

Caméras Continentales (Firm)

Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai.

Amaya Distribution (Firm)

DHCA.

Added Title

Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Vaĭnonen)

Philips video classics.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2874

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