Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions.
The ballet's score has been used in several film adaptations of Hoffmann's story. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker. Since the late 1960s, it has been danced by countless ballet companies, especially in North America. Although the complete and staged The Nutcracker ballet was not as successful as had been the 20-minute Nutcracker Suite that Tchaikovsky had premiered nine months earlier, The Nutcracker soon became popular. The ballet's first choreographer was Marius Petipa, with whom Tchaikovsky had worked three years earlier on The Sleeping Beauty, assisted by Lev Ivanov. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.
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