The Nutcracker transforms into a prince and takes Clara on a journey to the magical world of Confituremburg, the Land of Sweets, where they meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and her cavalier, Prince Coqueluche. The Nutcracker kills his enemy and the defeated mice disappear. The dolls are victorious when Clara intercedes, hitting the Mouse King with her slipper. That very same night, an army of the mice, led by the evil seven-headed Mouse King invade Clara’s parlour and the Nutcracker and the other dolls miraculously spring to life to fight off the rodents. On Christmas Eve, young Clara Silberhaus receives a Nutcracker doll from her godfather Herr Drosselmeyer, but there is more to this doll than meets the eye. Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipaĭécors by Konstantin Ivanov and Mikhail Bocharov Ballet-féerie in two acts and three scenes
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