Magyar Táncképek • Duna Művészegyüttes

We get an insight into the ritual-filled life of barbarian settlement trying to seek out a living on the ruins of a civilisation and fighting for survival, fighting with their fears, trying to live through all things fate brings on to them.

„...a Héttorony mélyében fekszik a mérhetetlen kincs, melynek a Barát az őre; bizonyos éjeken látni őt völgyeket áthágó lépéssel, fejével a holdig felérve járni, s a kincshöz vivő kulcsokat kinálgatni. Ezen kincs magába foglalja mind azt, mi az isteni magyarföldön csak lelhető: aranyfákat, gyümölcsöt, szöllőgerezdeket, mindennemű állatot, bor helyett, iható folyékony aranyat, arany tyúkokat, hasonló tojást költve, arany köveket….” Ipolyi Arnold

The idea for The Nutcracker ballet came from theone-time director of the Tsarist theatre who, based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale entitled the Nutcracker and the Mouse King, wanted to stage a fairy tale ballet that would surpass all that had gone before, both in sound and in spectacle. Tchaikovsky was asked to compose the music and after Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty his third and final ballet was also a great success. It was the six-movement suite of the music of The Nutcracker that was first performed in March 1892, and in December of the same year the spectacularly presented theatrical work was also performed. The Nutcracker has become the most frequently played ballet piece of all time.