Fun Shack Nutcracker Costume Adult, Nutcracker Soldier Costume, Christmas Fancy Dress Adult, Xmas Fancy Dress Men

Product Information

Recipient of the 2019 Special Olivier Award, Sir Matthew Bourne and New Adventures have produced some of the most successful dance productions of the last three decades. A behind the scenes interview with Ben Bazeley, New Adventures Dancer, discussing the role of Jack Gobstopper and Bob Gobstopper, the rehearsal process and touring life on Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! All types of costumes are represented as designed to be worn by such diverse characters as kings and queens, peasants and soldiers, fairies and ghosts, citizens and Greek gods, and representing all periods and styles. It is a very magic time of the year, filled with twirling snow flakes, waltzing flowers, sparkling Sugar Plum fairies and much, much more! It contains 5000 items, mostly from productions created for The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera and The Birmingham Royal Ballet (1946–97).

There are also numerous costumes for successive productions of Swan Lake, designed by Hurry between 1943 and 1979. This is why we did our best to provide you with the largest collection of Nutcracker costumes available on the web. Post-war productions represent the work of great artists and stage designers such as Barbara Hepworth (The Midsummer Marriage), Salvador Dali (Salome), Franco Zeffirelli (Lucia di Lammermoor), David Hockney (L’Enfant et les sortilèges, The Nightingale), Antony McDonald (Chérubin) and Paul Brown (Falstaff). The costumes and accessories are all made to the highest standard and are superb examples of the art of the designer and the skills of the wardrobe staff at the Royal Opera House. The collection includes costumes worn by members of the chorus and corps de ballet as well as the principal singers and dancers.We try to provide a representative survey of all the works performed by the Companies, including popular ballets and operas but also more obscure works that may have received only a few performances. All parts of a costume are collected, including the accompanying accessories such as wigs, bald pates, facial hair, hats, headdresses, jewellery, gloves, swords, underwear, tights, shoes and boots. The majority of ballet items cover the history of performances by The Royal Ballet and The Birmingham Royal Ballet from the 1940s onwards. The shoes form part of a collection donated to the Royal Opera House by the great British soprano, Eva Turner, which provides one of the finest records of the wardrobe of a major singer of the 1920s and 30s. The significance of the designer, the interest of the costume itself as a piece of design, the craftsmanship in its construction and execution and the significance of the wearer will all also affect the choice.

The Sleeping Beauty is represented by costumes from all productions performed by The Royal Ballet from 1946, the production designed by Oliver Messel that reopened the Royal Opera House, to Maria Bjornsson’s lavish production of 1994.The earliest ballet item in the collection is a single pointe shoe worn in the 1930s by Ninette de Valois, dancer, choreographer and Founder of The Royal Ballet. Dross’ Orphanage, through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland, influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.