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Children' s ballet - The Nutcracker

Ballet for children, aged 4 and over, with music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky

23
Monday
December
11:00 - 12:00
€ 25.00 / reduced € 10.00
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Information about the work

Music from tape

60 mins / no interval

recommended from 4 years
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Cast
  • Choreographer and stage director
    David Simic
  • Set design
    Ariane Leonie Stamatescu
  • Costumes
    Theama for Dance
    Fundus des Staatsballetts Berlin
  • Light design
    Steffen Hoppe
  • Sound
    Laureline Dabbadie
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A production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in cooperation with the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin

23
Monday
December
11:00 - 12:00
€ 25.00 / reduced € 10.00
Buy tickets
Cast
  • Choreographer and stage director
    David Simic
  • Set design
    Ariane Leonie Stamatescu
  • Costumes
    Theama for Dance
    Fundus des Staatsballetts Berlin
  • Light design
    Steffen Hoppe
  • Sound
    Laureline Dabbadie
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It's Christmas Eve. After the wonderful festivities, little Klara falls into a deep sleep. She dreams of a fantastic journey to the fairytale sugar country, accompanied by the nutcracker, her most beautiful gift.

Just like Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky's famous ballet music, the production of the "Kinder Ballett Kompagnie Berlin" takes up essential motifs from E. T. A. Hoffmann's fairy tale "Nutcracker and Mouse King": Before the little girl's journey begins, there is a fight between mice and toy soldiers. When the nutcracker finally becomes a life-size prince and accompanies Klara to the land of her dreams, the girl experiences what it feels like to grow up and that dreams can come true if you take them seriously enough. And finally there is a big party ...

The production by David Simic promises a wonderful introduction to the Christmas season. The pupils of the"Kinder Ballett Kompagnie Berlin" dance there. The performance is aimed at children and their parents.

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12
DEC

Adventskalender im Foyer: Das 12. Fensterchen

Today in the foyer: ‘The Snow Queen’ as a live audio play
A reading with Burkhard Ulrich and Fanny Frohnmeyer, with Lukas Zeuner on the drums
5:00 p.m. / Parkettfoyer
Duration: approx. 25 minutes / Free admission

‘Behold! Now we begin. When we reach the end of the story, we will know more than we do now, because it was an evil goblin! It was one of the very worst, it was the devil! One day he was in a good mood because he had made a mirror that had the property of making everything good and beautiful reflected in it shrink to almost nothing, but what was no good and looked bad was emphasised and became even worse. The most magnificent landscapes looked like overcooked spinach in it, and the best people became disgusting or stood on their heads without a torso,’ so begins the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen.

By an unfortunate accident, a splinter of this evil magic mirror jumps into Kay's heart , whereupon he suddenly finds life in his small town quite awful and lets himself be taken by the nasty Snow Queen to the far north. But Kay's friend Gerda sets out to save her best friend. With the help of a crow and a reindeer, she eventually finds her way to the cold north of Lapland and, with the true power of friendship and laughter, she is able to free Kay from the clutches of the Snow Queen.

Today, in the foyer, the tenor Burkhard Ulrich and the director of our Junge Deutsche Oper Fanny Frohnmeyer read this touching and wonderful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for all fairy tale fans, old and young! And our percussionist Lukas Zeuner provides the sound for the story with marimbas, a xylophone and all kinds of rhythm and sound instruments. And all this live and very close to the audience, next to the large fir tree in the parquet foyer.