Overview
- Mexico’s National Dance Company will stage El cascanueces at the Auditorio Nacional from December 18–23 with the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes conducted by Ayyub Guliyev and a cast of more than 200 artists.
- Organizers in Mexico City say this season is expected to push cumulative attendance to one million after 22 years and 228 performances at the venue.
- The CND production traces back to a 1980 debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, moved to the Auditorio Nacional in 2001, was redesigned in 2017 for the larger space, and currently uses the Nina Novak version with recent choreographic adjustments.
- Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires opens 13 sold-out performances of El Cascanueces choreographed by Silvia Bazilis, featuring puppetry, black-light sequences, sets by Gastón Joubert, and costumes by Gino Bogani.
- Teatro Colón also presents El Hada de Azúcar, a new one-act, 60-minute adaptation by Patricio Di Stabile running December 19–21 with the Compañía Juvenil and students from the Instituto Superior de Arte.