Zurich Opera House: Nussknacker und Mausekönig

In Rufus Didwiszus' stage setting, the workshop of the godfather Drosselmeier turns into an old revue-theater, where the characters of the ballet come to life.

Spucks' choreography plays with the richness of characters in E.T.A. Hoffmann's narrative cosmos, the absurdity and overwrought humor that inhabit them while at the same time looking down into the dark abyss of Romanticism.