Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Maximova, Vasiliev, Bolshoi

Rating:
Summary: Hello, Iron Curtain!
Review: This very traditional version of the Nutcracker is stiffer than the tutus in it! It has some redemption as a document of the vast size of the stage in the Bolshoi Theatre; but lacks imagination in sets, choreography, and costumes. One wonders how many decades the costumes have been reused, and what a more current production might be like. It was a chore to get through it.

Rating:
Summary: Hello, Iron Curtain!
Review: This very traditional version of the Nutcracker is stiffer than the tutus in it! It has some redemption as a document of the vast size of the stage in the Bolshoi Theatre; but lacks imagination in sets, choreography, and costumes. One wonders how many decades the costumes have been reused, and what a more current production might be like. It was a chore to get through it.