The English National Ballet’s performance of the Nutcracker was especially enchanting this year, but I left wondering what the story’s original author, E.T.A. Hoffmann would
have made of it all.
Hoffmann was long dead when his short story, Nussknacker und Mausekönig (The
Nutcracker and the Mouse King) (1816) came to inspire the ballet a generation later.
Daisy Dunn
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