Berlin State Opera
For 2017, the announced contestants were the Australian Ballet's "Peter Wright's The Nutcracker", the Dutch National Ballet's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", the Semperoper Ballet's "Nutcracker", the Berlin State Opera-Malakhov's 1999 "Nutcracker" and the Royal Opera House's 2016 "Nutcracker". The winner, announced on December 18th, was again the Berlin State Opera-Malahkov version.