Few things evoke the holiday spirit quite like the instantly recognizable “Nutcracker” score. Composed in 1892 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the iconic music plays as important a role in the show as the ...

The Christmas season is over, almost two months gone now. Nobody’s thinking much about the “Nutcracker.” John Stubbs is. The longtime San Diego violinist and ...

The critics were not kind after the first performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The battle scene was called clumsy, the costumes were described as dull, and the ...

Cerritos Center is starting the holiday cheer early with the first in a series of concerts and discussions from composer and classical music expert Rob Kapilow, starting with The Nutcracker. Did you ...

He's been a Tony-awarded lyricist and director of "Forbidden Broadway," but now Gerard Alessandrini has taken on a new role. Exterminator. In his new version of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" — ...

Members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in a production of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." It’s a perennial holiday favorite but it took a long time to grow into a classic. The United States was ...

In fact, for Cincinnati Ballet, it’s “Nutcracker” time for the 51st year. (That’s 52 if you count the 2020 pandemic version, an hourlong TV broadcast.) There are other long-running holiday traditions ...

It is, for so many of us, the permanent soundtrack of the holiday season. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” like no other music, conjures up images for me of warm fireplaces, ...

The holiday classic, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, returns to the Academy of Music on December 6. Angel Corella, Artistic Director for Philadelphia Ballet, calls the ballet the number one ...

She didn’t skip a beat when the cannonball – fortunately a lightweight prop – bounced onto one of the timpani behind her, ...