Birmingham Royal Ballet -Friday 19 November 2021
The Nutcracker
Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Choreography Peter Wright, Lev Ivanov, Vincent Redmon;
Production David Bintley; Additional choreography David Bintley, Marion Tait; Setting and additional props Dick Bird; Lighting Peter Teigen; Projection designs 59 Productions; Soundscape Bobby Aitken
with Simon Callow as the Voice of Drosselmeyer
The Sugar Pum Fairy The Prince Drosselmeyer, a magician Clara, a ballet student
Miki Mizutani César Morales Jonathan Payn Beatrice Parma
The Magician’s Assistant
Clara’s Mother, a former ballerina Clara’s Father Fritz, Clara’s younger brother Clara’s Dancing Partner Grandmother Grandfather Butler
Harlequin Columbine Jack-in-the-Box Ballet Students, Cadets, Guests and Servants
The Nutcracker Doll The Rat King Soldiers Rats
The Snow Fairy Her Attendants
Winds Snowflakes
Enrique Bejarno Vidal Daria Stanciulescu Valentin Olovyannikov Ryley Trimble
Gus Payne
Reina Fuchigami Rory Mackay Louis Andreasen
Max Maslen
Laura Day
Ryan Felix
Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Enrique Bejarno Vidal
Gabriel Anderson
Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Yijing Zhang
Yu Kurihara, Rachele Pizzillo, Eilis, Yuki Sugiura
Lachlan Monaghan, Gus Payne, Lennert Steegen, Alexander Yap Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet
ACTI
INTERVAL
The Big Give 2021: Please help to keep The Nutcracker dazzling. For details visit brb.org.uk/biggive

Spanish Dance Arabian Dance
Chinese Dance
Russian Dance Dance of the Mirlitons
Emma Price,
Valentin Olovyannikov, Alexander Yap
Eilis Small,
August Generalli, Miles Gilliver, Lennert Steegen Ryan Felix, Hamish Scott
Enrique Bejarano Vidal, Eric Pino Cata, Shuailun Wu Anna Ciriano, Laura Day,
Yu Kurihara, sofia Liñares
The Rose Fairy Her Consorts
Leading Flowers Grand pas de deux
Yaoqian Shang
Jack Bruce, Haoliang Feng,
Lachlan Monaghan, Alexander Yap Karla Doorbar, Reina Fuchigami, Rachele Pizzillo, Lynsey Sutherland
?, César Morales
ACT II
Waltz of the Flowers
Students appear by kind permission of the Principal of The Royal Ballet School.
The choristers in Act I are members of Ex Cathedra’s Academies of Vocal Music, Artistic Director Jeffrey Skidmore. Children are Royal Ballet Junior Associates and members of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Dance Track programme.
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Conductor Paul Murphy; Leader Robert Gibbs