NUTCRACKER - OPERA DE PARIS

Editor :NVC, TELDEC 1991

Recording :NVC, TELDEC 1991

Duration :90’

Music :Piotr Tchaïkovsky

Production :LA SEPT, FR3, SFP COPRODUCTION, 1988

Choreography :Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa

Comments :

Filmed under the direction of Nureyev with several changes as regards the stage version. Elisabeth Maurin and Laurent Hilaire are dazzling, as is the corps de ballet notably in the Snowflake scene. E. Maurin was appointed principal dancer by Nureyev during the filming.

Clara: Elisabeth Maurin
Drosselmeyer and the Prince: Laurent Hilaire

With the soloists and the corps de ballet from the Paris Opera.

Studio recording for television in 1988