![]() However, there are more dark elements and details in the original story than in the ballet performances. There, young Marie receives the gift of a nutcracker, which, at the very end, turns into a human and walks her off into a magical land of toys and candy. Hoffman’s story is like most ballet adaptations in that it begins at a Christmas Eve Party. However, the original 1816 story of The Nutcracker, derived from E.T.A Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, was far from a happy child’s fairytale. ![]() ![]() In a classic ballet performance of The Nutcracker, you can enjoy a spectacle of dancing, gift-giving, magical voyages through lands of snow, waltzing flowers, and a happy sugar-plum fairy who dotes upon a young girl and her nutcracker prince. ![]()
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