Christmas: Luciano Cannito reinterprets ‘Nutcracker’ for the Roma City Ballet Company

From 23 December to 6 January ‘Lo Nutcracker’ (The Nutcracker), music by PI Tchiajkovskij, directed and choreographed by Luciano Cannito, is staged at the Teatro Atlantico Live Roma at Eur. For the occasion, the theater will be transformed into a magical snow-covered Christmas village illuminated by shining lights. On stage the 30 interpreters of the Roma City Ballet Company alongside international guests. Dinu Tamazlacaru and Xenia Ovsianick, principal dancers of the Berlin Opera and Javier Rojas and Rachele Pizzillo principal dancers of the Birmingham Royal Ballet will alternate in the performances. in the new production by Fabrizio of Fiore Entertainment for Roma City Ballet Company, it can boast up to now almost all sold out in the theaters where it has been performed (Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Auditorium della Conciliazione, Rome). ‘The Nutcracker’ was first performed at the Marijnskij Theater in St. Petersburg on December 5, 1892. The subject is based on the fable ‘The Nutcracker and the Rat King’ by Eta Hoffmann, little Clara’s dream-nightmare on Christmas night. In the choreographic version of Luciano Cannito the mysterious Drosselmeyer plays a decisive role, here played by the great character dancer Manuel Paruccini, a fantastic figure who recognizes Clara’s childish purity and decides to give her a wonderful dream in the world of fairy tales on Christmas night, guided by Nutcracker Prince and the Confetto Fairy, in a fairy kingdom of toys that become animated figures, princes and princesses and that make them the ballet title of the most represented classical repertoire in the world. “A ballet with a strongly dreamlike sign – declares Luciano Cannito – in particular as regards the figure of Drosselmeyer. Disturbing in many of the readings of the Nutcracker, represented in my show as an elegant character with magical properties, a kind of Hollywoodian guardian angel The whole history of ballet – the director and choreographer still anticipates – will revolve around an act of childlike generosity and purity that little Clara will have towards an old cold beggar, ignored by everyone on Christmas night, to whom he will want to donate a small Christmas gift. To repay the beggar, who is actually the very elegant and magical Drosselmeyer, he will give Clara a night in which to live her dreams as real “. Rome City Ballet Company is one of the most recent formations Italian, composed exclusively of artists selected with international auditions, today considered one of the classical ita companies lianas of excellence and of the highest technical level on the national scene. The company is directed by Luciano Cannito, director and choreographer, considered one of the most prestigious names in Italian choreography. Nutcracker by Cannito / Tciajkovskj is a ballet created for the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and then resumed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and its score is one of the most beautiful ballet music ever written. For this new edition expressly produced by Fabrizio Di Fiore Entertainment for Roma City Ballet Company, the costumes were created by Giusi Giustino and the sets by Italo Grassi, both artists whose works are represented in the major theaters in the world. Alongside the Corps de Ballet and the solo dancers of the Roma City Ballet Company, the public will be able to applaud two pairs of guest principal dancers in the roles of the Nutcracker Prince and the Confetto Fairy. The Principal Dancers of the Berlin Opera House Xenia Ovsianick and Dinu Tamazlacaru will alternate in the performances, and Rachele Pizzillo, a very young Italian dancer, future star of international dance, just named prima ballerina at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Javier Rojas, a veteran of success as winner of “Amici di Maria De Filippi” in the dance category of the 2019 edition, also at the Birmingham Royal Ballet.