NUTCRACKER Presented by The Grand Kyiv Ballet

Nutcracker is a ballet that will always be timeless, it has been loved for more than 100 years by many generations of children and adults from different countries all around the world. The performance is based on the fairy tale classic of German literature by E. Hoffmann “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, it is a mystical story about a handsome prince who was bewitched into an ugly doll, and a girl Masha, who helps the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse King. Choreography: Valeriy Kovtun Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto based on Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”: Marius Petipa