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On New Year's Eve, the National Ballet of Canada, following a long-standing tradition, presented James Kudelka's 1995 production of The Nutcracker. The performance on the stage of the Four Seasons Center theater was watched by hundreds of Russian compatriots, the press service of the organizations of Russian compatriots of Canada reports.
Koudelka's choreography differs from the original version, but the music of the great Tchaikovsky remained unchanged, and the spirit of a Russian fairy tale was in the costumes and scenery. Spectators were happy that the tradition of staging The Nutcracker during the Christmas holidays was preserved in Canada this year, while many European countries abandoned productions by Russian authors.
One of the spectators noted that it is impossible to compare the production of the Russian classical ballet school with the Canadian version, but the fact is that ''they will never cancel Tchaikovsky.''
Tolstoy’s ''War and Peace,'' Pushkin’s ''Eugene Onegin,'' and Chekhov’s ''Seagull'' are staged in Canada—not a single theater season is complete without Russian classics; performances are held to full houses.
Russkiy Mir
