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The Land of Sweets Ivan Vsevolozhsky's original costume designs for Mother Gigogne and her Polichinelle children, 1892

Petipa designed the dances. He gave Tchaikovsky special directions about how the music was to be written. For example, he wanted a great crescendo of 48 bars as the Christmas tree rose higher and higher in Act 1. He wrote that the music for the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" should sound like drops of water splashing in a fountain. [3] O livro tem tudo de que gosto: se passa no Natal, tem família reunida, um tio que fabrica brinquedos exóticos e conta histórias maravilhosas aos sobrinhos, tem sonhos mágicos com príncipes e princesas e um exército que luta corajosamente para derrotar o mal e, claro, tem final romântico e feliz. Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (1819). Die Serapionsbrüder[ The Serapion Brethren]. Vol.I. Translated by Ewing, Major Alex. London: George Bell and Sons (published 1886). p.iii. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo records, 1935–1968 (MS Thr 463): Guide". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 3 February 2013. In 1954, the first complete recording of the ballet was released on two LPs by Mercury Records. The cover design was by George Maas with illustrations by Dorothy Maas. [66] The music was performed by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Doráti. Doráti later re-recorded the complete ballet in stereo, with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1962 for Mercury and with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1975 for Philips Classics. According to Mercury Records, the 1962 recording was made on 35mm magnetic film rather than audio tape, and used album cover art identical to that of the 1954 recording. [67] [68] Dorati is the only conductor so far to have made three different recordings of the complete ballet. Some critics have cited the 1975 recording as the finest ever made of the complete ballet. [69] It is also faithful to the score in employing a boys' choir in the Waltz of the Snowflakes. Many other recordings use an adult or mixed choir.

Russian Seasons in Monaco". rusmonaco.fr (in Russian). Monaco and Cote D'Azur (printed Russian-language newspaper and magazine in Monaco and France) . Retrieved 4 December 2020. I think that the important thing reading such stories, isn't that they have to be real, but realistic though weird things happen. I like it when an author has that special skill to make also weird happenings believable. Usually I don't read fantasy, but Hoffmann is one of those authors that make me enjoy also genres I never read because he makes fantasy become real. His stories start with realism and only later he adds some magic inside.

All kinds of wonderful and extraordinary things may there be seen by those who have eyes sharp enough to discover them.” Wiley, Roland John (1985), Tchaikovsky's Ballets, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-816249-9 Brown, David. Tchaikovsky: The Final Years, 1885-1893. London, 1991; corrected edition 1992: p. 386In 2017, Lindsey Stirling released her version of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" on her holiday album Warmer in the Winter. [60]