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Volpi said he is turning to the original tale by E.T.A.
Hoffmann for the show in which Pyotr Tchaikovsky's score is
performed by the deFilharmonie orchestra.
"When I looked at the score, I realized that there were a few
structural problems with it for it to work in our understanding
of theater today," he said.
"So I had to make some adjustments, I had to reinterpret the
music and I did that by informing myself always by the Hoffmann.
So going back, when I didn't know what to do, I always said:
"well, what would Hoffmann have done?" or try to pull it back
there. So it's somewhere in between, really, the original story
and the ballet story."
"The Nutcracker" premiered on Sunday in Antwerp. It moves to
Ghent from Feb. 10.
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