OREANDA-NEWS  No serious problems have been found in the operation of the website of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, despite bot attacks and temporary difficulties, at the moment 90% of tickets for The Nutcracker have been sold on December 17, the GABTA press service told Interfax.

Users began to complain about failures in the work of the Bolshoi Theater website after the start of sales of The Nutcracker. Despite the fact that the site continued to work, there were problems both when going to the ticket sales section on the site, when logging into your personal account, and during the purchase itself.

Ticket sales for the ballet "The Nutcracker" began on December 2 at 10:00 Moscow time. To buy a ticket, you had to create a personal account on the theater's website in advance. Tickets for the performance went on sale on December 17.

GABT decided to sell a ticket to The Nutcracker only through the theater's website, it is impossible to purchase a ticket at the box office.

The Nutcracker Ballet is the main New Year's production at the Bolshoi Theatre. Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich based on the fairy tale of the same name by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (using the motifs of the script by Marius Petipa). The premiere took place on the historical stage in 1966. In previous years, tickets for the performance were sold at the box office of the theater, which led to the formation of long queues.