OREANDA-NEWS  Tickets for the first performance of the New Year's ballet "The Nutcracker" at the Bolshoi Theater sold out in two hours, RIA Novosti reports.

Sales started on December 2 at 10:00 a.m. The first performance of the ballet directed by Yuri Grigorovich will take place on December 17. The main roles in the first performance will be performed by Eleonora Sevenard and Artemy Belyakov.

It is known that the cost of the most expensive ticket for the first performance was 50 thousand rubles, and the cheapest — 5 thousand rubles.

Sales for performances on December 17-20 will also open today.

Last year, a Muscovite woman lost hundreds of thousands of rubles while trying to buy tickets to The Nutcracker. She contacted an unknown person in one of the messengers, where he offered to profitably purchase tickets to the Bolshoi Theater, but after paying for the "order" of tickets, she did not wait.