Her Nutcracker valiantly leads the soldiers, but is soon overpowered by the evil Rat King. As midnight strikes, all the toys including her beloved Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Rat King come to life, and a battle between Rats and Toy Soldiers ensues. Her sister gets the Sugar Plum Fairy Doll and her brother, the Rat King Doll. At her family’s Noche Buena, Clara receives an enchanted Nutcracker Doll from her godfather, the toymaker Don Alfonso Quintero. Set in the Philippines in the 1920s, The Nutcracker follows our young heroine Clara on a fantastic journey.
BP sets itself apart by adding its own Filipino flavor to the time and tested ballet. Nobuo Fujino (formerly a Senior Artist at the Australian Ballet and Principal Dancer with Hong Kong Ballet) returns to BP as guest artist courtesy of Japan Foundation and Tan Yan Kee Foundation, and the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Salonga, plays Tchaikovsky’s iconic music live on select performances.Ī ballet for the whole family, The Nutcracker is a holiday tradition all over the world, with professional dance companies and schools doing their own version of the beloved full-length ballet.
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Ballet Philippines (BP), the country’s flagship dance company, presents the timeless Christmas ballet in full Filipino splendor in Edna Vida and Alice Reyes’ The Nutcracker.