NUTCRACKER by Verbruggen and couture designers ON AURA TOUT VU Grand Théâtre de Geneve

First major creation for belgian choreographer Jeroen Verbruggen. Le Grand Théâtre de Genève entrusted the production of the legendary ballet. Verbruggen worked for two years with the parisians couturiers of On Aura Tout Vu, Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov.

Yassen Samouilov and Livia Stoianova art directors of ON AURA TOUT VU Couture brand

Choreographer Jeroen Verbruggen

Fantastic and wonderful, this new Nutcracker is an incredible accuracy. This new production, set to tour the globe, is sure to carry on its legacy. And breaking with tradition, there’s not a Christmas Tree in sight!

This is haw it was  in Jeroen's Christmas Srange family: Wonderland or historical  interpretation....

It starts fast and hard, with a probable Drosselmeier out of a strange closet, surrounded by rats unlikely that become kings through as eccentric and African-inspired masks. Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, led by Philippe Beran, prints an alert tempo that gives the whole dynamic beautiful and a perfect balance of timbres. The idea of the choreographer who changed the order of a few pieces of the original score is, for once, a real find, which boosts tremendously ballet. Extraordinary ilusions and visual beauty.We will not see tree, but this cabinet, mysterious and beautiful, disturbing at times, where everything happens, a German Romanticism with its quirky gorgonians and eagles, which signals to the literary origin of this tale by ETA Hoffmann.

The costumes and decor elements (all having been superbly realized by Ateliers du Grand Théâtre de Genève) Parisian couturiers of On Aura Tout Vu, which generally dress Lady Gaga , Nicki Minaj, Ivana Wong or Conchita Wurst, are extraordinary, a minimalism baroque, with their well-cut coats, their sparkling bodysuits a delicate gray with small baskets that evoke nut shells, and their extinct mirrors. And a monumental chandelier over shiny and more festive than any Christmas tree, besides all the folklore which is absent here.

To Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music

To Maestro Marius Ivanovich Petipa, premier maître de ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. St. Petersburg

 Casse Noisette Credit photos Gregory Batardon Thanks to Grand Theatre de Geneve