When Tchaikovsky premiered his famous ballet “The Nutcracker” in Saint Petersburg 130 years ago, it was presented as a double bill, as standard at the time, together with the opera “Iolanta”. The Volksoper Wien, being part home to the famous Wiener Staatsballett, under the helm of the new artistic director Lotte de Beer and music director Omer Meir Wellber, presents both works again in one evening, but not as two separate pieces, but by fusing the two works into one. It’s a “successful debut that is also musically convincing” and the “two pieces intertwine like gears”.
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