Moscow theaters are actively preparing for the hot days before the New Year. In the capital, spectators are offered a wide range of performances of the Nutcracker, from ballet to ice shows; Ticket prices range from 800 to 85 thousand rubles, the Izvestia newspaper reports.
The most important “Nutcracker” in the country in choreography Yuri Grigorovichwhich annually suffers a ticket sales process with scandal, queues and incredible prices, has not yet been announced at the Bolshoi Theater (SABT). It is not listed on the poster; the theater management has not announced the start of ticket sales, although not a single post on the Bolshoi social network account since the beginning of November has been left without an excited comment about “when The Nutcracker will finally be released.” announced.”
“We have a whole series of Nutcrackers ahead of us. We want, together with the Ministry of Culture and the Moscow City Council, to hold meetings with the most brilliant performance possible for a large number of people. These issues are currently being debated. Let’s hope for a festive December and the first half of January. “Our audience will be offered quite a few Nutcrackers,” – promised the General Director of the Bolshoi, People’s Artist of Russia, conductor Valery Gergiev.
According to the publication, a source from the theater said that the most expensive tickets for the ballet “The Nutcracker” will cost spectators of the Bolshoi Theater 50 thousand rubles.
MAMT (Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after KS Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko) sells tickets to “The Nutcracker” in choreography Yuri Posokhov They vary in price from 3 to 25 thousand rubles. This is almost double last year’s performance at both the Bolshoi Theater and the MAMT itself.
The theater’s press service explained that “the prices are dictated, among other things, by the consolidated position of the theater community in the fight against resellers.”
Tickets for the Kremlin Ballet Theater’s “The Nutcracker” on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace cost between 1,000 and 7,000 rubles. These are the most affordable prices for ballet, but they have also increased. Last year, a New Year’s fairy tale cost 800 to 5 thousand rubles.
Also on the stage of the Kremlin Palace he will present his choreographed version of “The Nutcracker” Vasily Vainonen Russian Ballet Academy named after A.Ya. Vaganova, whose rector is the People’s Artist of Russia Nikolai Tsiskaridze. Ballet performed by children costs three times more than professional performances of the Kremlin ballet group: from 3 to 25 thousand rubles.
In December-January, “The Nutcracker” will appear on the billboard of the RAMT (Russian Academic Youth Theater). Russian classical ballet theater under the direction. Valentina Grischenko will present choreography starting December 2 Marius Petipa AND Lev Ivanov. Tickets are sold at prices ranging from 2 thousand to 15 thousand rubles.
“The Nutcracker” will be screened at the CSKA Arena. Kingdom of the Bats” is a New Year’s show based on Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, inspired by the worlds of Tim Burton. The production is a symbiosis of ballet and circus against the backdrop of a Gothic decor. Ticket prices range between 2,000 and 15,000 rubles.
olympic champion tatiana navka The new ice show is also called “The Nutcracker”, it will start on December 20 on Megasport. The main roles of the New Year’s premiere are the stars of world figure skating, multiple champions of Russia, Europe and the world, Olympic champions. So far this is the most expensive “Nutcracker”, tickets are sold at prices from 1 thousand to 85 thousand rubles.
“The Nutcracker” by another Olympic figure skating champion Evgenia PlushenkoOn the contrary, it has become the most affordable in terms of ticket prices. The ice show, where Plushenko himself plays the main character, can be visited for 800 – 3.8 thousand rubles.
As reported EADailyTicket prices for the Nutcracker ballet at the Bolshoi Theater periodically become a cause of scandal. Year after year, the cost of attending a performance breaks every record imaginable and unimaginable. In 2022, according to the Life portal, the price of tickets for “The Nutcracker” on private advertising sites soared to 150-200 thousand rubles. Last year, people queued for several days and tickets were already sold out. This year, the Bolshoi Theater increased the prices for all performances to 50 thousand rubles per seat in the stalls.
