Party Scene

Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaums family. A large and stately house with the most beautiful Christmas tree imaginable. The children, Clara and Fritz, dance play and greet their friends.

The party turns festive with music and dancing when the godfather Drosselmeyer arrives. He is a watch and toy maker, the mysterious and cheerful Drosselmeyer is always full of surprises.

The children begin to open presents, and Drosselmeyer gives Clara an unusual Nutcracker doll. Clara is overjoyed. But Fritz is jealous and snatching the Nutcracker from Clara immediately breaks it. Clara is heartbroken, but Drosselmeyer quickly fixes the Nutcracker and punishes the naughty Fritz.

Late in the evening, happy and contented guests disperse, and the Stahlbaum family retires for the evening. Clara, worried about her beloved Nutcracker, sneaks back to the tree to check on him and falls asleep next to him.

As the clock strikes midnight, strange things begin to happen. Clara begins to shrink, her beautiful Christmas tree rising high above her. The toys around the Christmas tree come to life, and the room fills with an army of mice led by the ferocious Mouse King. But the Nutcracker leads his army of toy soldiers into battle with the mice. Unfortunately, the cunning ones win.

The Nutcracker and his army. But then Clara, plucking up her courage, in a desperate attempt to save her beloved Doll, throws a pillow at the Mouse King, hitting him right in the head. The mouse king falls to the floor, and the defeated mice run off, carrying their leader.

And suddenly amiracle happened, magic spells, sincere faith and love ofClara, turns the Nutcracker into ahandsome Prince. Clara realizes that she has become anadult. And their journey begins— amagical forest wonderland, where they are greeted bydancing Snowflakes, escorting them tothe Land ofSweets.

The Land of SweetsThe Prince accompanies Clara to the Land of Sweets, where they are met by Drosselmeyer and the Fairytale Representatives of Sweets from different countries.

Suddenly the Mouse King appears, the Prince is ready to fight the enemy, but suddenly the Mouse King takes off his mask, and under it is Drosselmeyer, who decided to joke a little.The ball begins in a joyful mood.

Spanish dance — Chocolate
Arabic dance — Coffee
Ukrainian dance — Libretto

Clara awakens from her dream and finds herself byher Christmas tree with her beloved Nutcracker.