MINISTRY OF CULTURE
THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

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Historic Stage

28 October, 19:00
29 October, 19:00

Presented with one interval.
Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes.

Premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus took place on 15 April 1982.

New version premiere: 13 October 2020.
Libretto by Valentin Elizariev based on Marius Petipa’s libretto

Choreography and staging: Valentin Elizariev
Music Director: Alexander Anisimov
Music Director of new version: Vyacheslav Chernukho-Volich
Set Designer: Evgeny Lysik
Costume Designer: Oksana Zinchenko
Lighting Designer: Nina Ivankina
Lyudmila Khitrova as Masha. Karina Malakhovskaya as Nutcracker. <br/>Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
Lyudmila Khitrova as Masha. Karina Malakhovskaya as Nutcracker.
Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
Yury Kovalev as Drosselmeyer. <br/>Alexandra Chizhik as Nutcracker. Daria Medovskaya as Princess. <br/>Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
Yury Kovalev as Drosselmeyer.
Alexandra Chizhik as Nutcracker. Daria Medovskaya as Princess.
Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
Even Kapiten as Drosselmeyer. <br/>Drosselmeyer’s toys: Alexandra Chizhik, Anton Kravchenko (Russian), Tatiana Ulasen, Igor Matskevich (Persian), Yana Shtangei, Yuri Kovalev (Spanish), Takatoshi Machiyama, Ksenia Rzhrvskaya (Japanese). <br/>Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
Even Kapiten as Drosselmeyer.
Drosselmeyer’s toys: Alexandra Chizhik, Anton Kravchenko (Russian), Tatiana Ulasen, Igor Matskevich (Persian), Yana Shtangei, Yuri Kovalev (Spanish), Takatoshi Machiyama, Ksenia Rzhrvskaya (Japanese).
Photo by Alexei Kaznadei / Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.