{"id":73097,"date":"2021-11-25T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=73097"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:53:44","slug":"scoop-national-ballets-nutcracker-principal-casting-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/11\/25\/scoop-national-ballets-nutcracker-principal-casting-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | National Ballet\u2019s The Nutcracker Principal Casting Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73098\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/National_Ballet-_The_Nutcracker_casting.jpg\" alt=\"Artists of the Ballet in The Nutcracker (Photo: Karolina Kuras, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists of the Ballet in The Nutcracker (Photo: Karolina Kuras, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Nutcracker<\/em> is a favourite tradition for families over the holidays, so when it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/08\/12\/scoop-national-ballet-canada-abandons-hope-fall-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelled last season<\/a>, the holidays just didn\u2019t feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the National Ballet of Canada announced the principal casting for its anticipated return to the stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/national-ballet-canada-nutcracker-4\/2021-12-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10 \u2013 December 31, 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Dancer Siphesihle November will make his debut as Peter\/The Nutcracker opposite Corps de Ballet Member Tirion Law, who debuts as the Sugar Plum Fairy.<\/p>\n<p>The opening night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/national-ballet-canada-nutcracker-4\/2021-12-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10<\/a> at 7:00 p.m. will feature Principal Dancers Naoya Ebe and Tina Pereira in the roles of Peter\/The Nutcracker and the Sugar Plum Fairy. First Soloist Calley Skalnik will dance the role of the Snow Queen, and First Soloist Donald Thom will dance the role of Uncle Nikolai.<\/p>\n<p>Others making their debuts include Principal Dancer Ben Rudisin as Uncle Nikolai, and Second Soloist Genevieve Penn Nabity as the Snow Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Full casting details are found [<a href=\"https:\/\/national.ballet.ca\/Productions\/The-Nutcracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>].<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ballet of Canada announced the principal casting for the anticipated return to the stage of The Nutcracker December 10 to December 31, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":73098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,445,20,39,63],"tags":[27852,5737],"yst_prominent_words":[11936,13340,14397,33444,6744,20894,10457,13922,6687,14443,33446,12172,27224,27104,9105,33445,33443,33447],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/National_Ballet-_The_Nutcracker_casting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-j0Z","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73099,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73097\/revisions\/73099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73097"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}