Accademia Teatro alla ScalaAccademia Teatro alla ScalaAccademia Teatro alla ScalaAccademia Teatro alla Scala
  • Music
    • Course for opera singers
    • Course for opera coaches
    • Course for orchestra musicians
    • Children’s chorus – beginners
    • Summer masterclass for opera coaches
  • Dance
    • Courses for professional dancers
    • The course for Classical Ballet Instructors – Diploma Course
    • Beginning ballet (age 6-10)
    • Summer classes
    • Summer classes for beginners
  • Stagecraft
    • Course for sound technicians
    • Course in photography, videography and new media
    • Course for hair and make-up artist
    • Course in special make-up
    • Course for theatrical tailors
    • Course for wig makers
    • Course for set designers
    • Course for lighting designers
  • Management
    • Master in Performing Arts Management
    • Course in stage management
    • Executive Master’s in sponsoring and fundraising for the arts
    • Workshop in production management
  • Facilities
  • Italiano
  • Apply now
  • Open Day
  • Donate now
  • Italiano
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Stagecraft
  • Management
  • Apply
  • News
  • Scholarships, funding and exemptions
  • Donate now
  • The Academy
    • Founders’ Register
    • Board of Directors
    • Leadership
    • Staff
    • Statute
    • Code of ethics
    • Library
    • Shop for Students
    • Where we are
  • Newsletter EN
  • Artistic Groups
    • Academy of Lyric Opera
    • Ballet School
    • “Giorgio Bernasconi” Ensemble
    • Orchestra
  • Partners
    • Partners, supporters and sponsors
    • Founders’ Register
    • Partnerships
    • Technical sponsors
    • Tim foundation
  • Support us
  • Privacy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Navigation information
    • Cookie-policy
    • Privacy information on the processing of personal data in relation to Information request / Newsletter / Brochure
  • It’s nutcracker time!

    • Home
    • News
    • It’s nutcracker time!
    The academy as protagonist of the prima diffusa
    Dramatically musical journey

    The Accademia Teatro alla Scala Ballet School brings the magic of The Nutcracker to Teatro Strehler, a choreography signed by Frédéric Olivieri from Lev Ivanov (December 14-22).

    Photo by Federica Capo (c) Accademia Teatro alla Scala

    Moving to the notes of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the young dancers will thrill young and old alike as they bring to life the characters populating Marius Petipa’s libretto inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

     

    The Nutcracker was first conceived in early 1891, when the Director of the Russian Imperial Theatres of Saint Petersburg commissioned Petipa and Tchaikovsky to choreograph a two-act ballet for the Christmas season.

    After meeting with the balletmaster Petipa, the composer began to work in “feverish haste”. In a letter dated February of that year, he wrote that he was working on The Nutcracker “with all my might” and the music was ready early the following year, in spite of the composer’s many bouts of depression. He had written to his brother Modest that he was «tormented by an awareness that it is totally impossible to complete well the work I have engaged myself to do». His difficult relationship with Petipa may have had something to do with this. The balletmaster dictated the score measure by measure, badgering the composer with such notes as: «The stage is empty… Clara returns.  Eight measures for her tremble of fright, eight for fantastic and dance music. Rest. The clock strikes midnight.  After the chimes of the clock a short tremolo.  After the tremolo, five measures to hear the scratching of the mice […]».

    A suite of pieces from the ballet was performed under the composer’s direction on March 19, 1892 at the Russian Musical Society’s theatre in St. Petersburg. It received unanimous acclaim, with five out of six pieces encored at its premiere. However, the opening night of the full ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in December of the same year was not so fortunate. Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother Anatoly that it had been a great success, the ballet almost too splendid, but the local press considered it boring and far removed from what is necessary in a ballet, in spite of the admirable efforts of the new balletmaster, Lev Ivanov, who was summoned to finish the work of Petipa after the latter fell suddenly ill. Unlike his predecessor, Ivanov considered music not to be a servant of the art of dance, but its true source of inspiration. 

    This somewhat difficult birth was soon followed by extraordinary success starting in the early twentieth century. Today The Nutcracker is a Christmas classic and a regular feature on the season programs of theatres all over the world, both in the more classic version – interpreted by such choreographers as Balanchine and Nureyev – and in completely new productions, such as that choreographed by Maurice Béjart.

     


    Main Sponsor Official Supplier of the Ballet School:
     

    {loadposition position-social}

    Share
    This template supports the sidebar's widgets. Add one or use Full Width layout.

    jacopo tissi con elena bottaro al gala dei 200 anni dell'accademia teatro alla scala

    Former student Jacopo Tissi just been named Principal Dancer of the Corps de Ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre


    uno scatto da casa azul di giulia iacolutti

    A portrait of Giulia Iacolutti, former student in stage pgotography


    martina arduino

    Martina Arduino, prima ballerina at Teatro alla Scala and former Academy Ballet School student


    federica bagnera insegna danza alle farfalle azzurre della nazionale italiana

    Twice-former student Federica Bagnera


    logo footer accademia alla scala

    Via S. Marta, 18 - 20123 Milano
    Tel.: 02/8545111
    VAT N. 03413630967

    T

    he La Scala Academy (Accademia Teatro alla Scala), under the leadership of BoD chairman Giuseppe Vita and director Luisa Vinci, is one of the world’s premiere institutions for comprehensive professional training in all artistic, technical, and managerial areas of the performing arts. Organized into four departments – Music, Dance, Stagecraft, Management – the Academy offers some thirty different courses attended each year by over 1,700 students.

    • Support the Academy
    • News
    • Events archive
    • Restricted area
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contacts
    • Music
    • Dance
    • Stagecraft
    • Management
    • Apply
    • E-learning
    © 2022 Accademia Teatro Alla Scala - Contenuti: Ufficio Relazioni Esterne e Comunicazione | Cookie Policy
    Caricamento...
    We use cookies to improve your experience online. By closing this banner we will use only technical cookies. You can manage your options. Find out more here: cookie policy.
    SettingsAccept allReject all ×
    Cookies Setting

    Cookies Setting

    This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.

    SAVE & ACCEPT
    Powered by