Rosie Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Can someone pls tell me where i can find the original costumes and stage design of The Nutcracker? Link to comment
rg Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 there are isolated, individual designs in a few books. there are a few photos and sketches from the original production in john warrack's TCHAIKOVSKY. roslavleva's ERA OF RUSSIAN BALLET reproduces in B&W a grouping of snowflakes and shot of the leading child dancers in act 1, sc. 1. surprisingly there seem none in jack anderson's THE NUTCRACKER BALLET. there are some black-and-white illustrations from the 1892 production in wiley's THE LIFE AND BALLETS OF LEV IVANOV. (wiley's TCHAIKOVSKY'S BALLETS reproduces the now familiar grouping of snowflakes too.) if you can read russian basically enough to read captions and names there is a russian language monograph on the ballet called SHCHYELKUNCHIK (by G. N. Dorbrovolskaya' which shows up at times on ebay. (this is the best, most inclusive source that i know of.) various books about ballet design sometimes reproduce the setting for Konfituremburg. Link to comment
rg Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 i've tried to post two illustrations here, but am unable to. i'll try to do so on Ballet History Link to comment
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