Nutcracker - Щелкунчик/Shchelkunchik

Japanese: くるみ割り人形 - くるみわりにんぎょう(英語表記)Щелкунчик/Shchelkunchik
Nutcracker - Щелкунчик/Shchelkunchik

Ballet. 2 acts, 3 scenes. Music by Tchaikovsky. The libretto was adapted by Marius Petipa from E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Choreography by Lev Ivanov. It premiered on December 6, 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. On Christmas night, a grand feast is held at the house of a young girl named Clara, and her godfather gives her a Nutcracker. After the feast, Clara dreams that the Nutcracker is fighting an army of mice. The Nutcracker suddenly transforms into a prince and takes Clara to various lands. In the Land of Sweets, the Sugar Plum Fairy dances a pas de deux to welcome her, and divertissement unfolds one after another. There are many revisions of this ballet, but the Bolshoi Theatre's version by Grigorovich is popular in Japan. Ballet companies around the world often put on Christmas-themed performances in December.

The dance suite of the same name that is familiar today ((1) Miniature Overture, (2) March, (3) Sugar Candy Dance, (4) Trepak, (5) Arabian Dance, (6) Chinese Dance, (7) Reed Flute Dance, and (8) Waltz of the Flowers) was composed by Tchaikovsky himself and premiered at his concert on March 15, 1892, prior to the premiere of the ballet.

[Masa Ichikawa]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

バレエ。2幕3場。チャイコフスキー作曲。台本は、E・T・A・ホフマン原作の『くるみ割り人形とハツカネズミの王様』をもとにマリウス・プチパが脚色。振付けレフ・イワーノフ。1892年12月6日、ペテルブルグのマリンスキー劇場初演。クリスマスの夜、少女クララの家で盛大な祝宴が開かれ、名付け親はクララにくるみ割り人形を贈る。祝宴が終わり、クララはくるみ割り人形がハツカネズミの軍隊と戦っている夢をみる。くるみ割り人形は突然王子に変身し、クララをいろいろな国に連れていってくれる。お菓子の国で金平糖(こんぺいとう)の精が歓迎のパ・ド・ドゥを踊り、次から次へとディベルティスマンが展開される。このバレエにはたくさんの改訂版があるが、ボリショイ劇場のグリゴロービチ版などが日本でも親しまれている。世界各国のバレエ団は12月になるとクリスマスにちなんで上演することが多い。

 なお、今日親しまれている同名の舞踊組曲((1)小序曲、(2)行進曲、(3)こんぺい糖の踊り、(4)トレパック、(5)アラビアの踊り、(6)中国の踊り、(7)あし笛の踊り、(8)花のワルツ)はチャイコフスキー自身によって編まれたもので、バレエ初演より先の1892年3月15日、彼の音楽会で初演された。

[市川 雅]

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