‘The Nutcracker’ ballet, based on Hoffmann’s ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’, and hasn’t changed much since Tchaikovsky was commissioned to write the music over a century ago. When her godfather gives Clara the gift of a nutcracker at Christmas, she is flung into a dream world where she battles the evil Mouse King and wins. Her nutcracker changes into a prince and together they journey through the land of snow and the land of sweets.
