The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta
1 - Ouvertüre
2 - The Christmas Tree (1. Akt, 1. Aufzug)
3 - March
4 - Children's Galop and Arrival of the Guests
5 - Dance Scene and Arrival of Drosselmeyer… mehr
6 - Scene and Grandfather Dance
7 - The Magic Spell Begins
8 - The Battle between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King
9 - In the Pine Forest (1. Akt, 2. Aufzug)
10 - Waltz of the Snowflakes
1 - The Magic Castle (2. Akt)
2 - Clara and the Prince
3 - Divertissement: Chocolate (Spanischer Tanz)
4 - Divertissement: Coffee (Arabischer Tanz)
5 - Divertissement: Tea (Chinesischer Tanz)
6 - Divertissement: Trepak (Russischer Tanz)
7 - Divertissement: Dance of the Flutes
8 - Divertissement: Mother Gigogne and the Flowers
9 - Waltz of the Flowers (Blumenwalzer)
10 - Dance of the Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy
11 - Variation 1: Tarantella
12 - Variation 2: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
13 - Coda
14 - Final Waltz and Apotheosis
15 - Introduction and Waltz
16 - Polonaise weniger