When the nutcracker comes to life as a handsome ... excited, miserable, Tchaikovsky's music really makes us 'feel'. Six weeks of learning and activitiesDownload lesson plans for six weeks of ...

Qu Zijiao, director of the Liaoning Ballet, said the production features innovative storytelling and emphasizes the power of ...

The adolescent Clara is more knowing still, with a giddy enthusiasm for young men in uniform. This feels very much at odds with the earnest, heart-wrenching swell of Tchaikovsky’s music for the Act I ...

Unimpressed by the substitute for Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker ... “Everything about ‘The Nutcracker’ is much better — the music, the dance, the story,” said Egle Brediene, 38 ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer whose work would make a lasting impression internationally, with Swan Lake and The Nutcracker propelling him into classical music immortality.

Famed Bolshoi duo Yekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev star in this production of Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet, "The Nutcracker." Maximova dances the role of Maria, the young girl whose ...

"Everything about The Nutcracker is much better -- the music, the dance, the story," said Egle Brediene, 38, hurrying out of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater this past week after ...

A 2011 performance by New York City Ballet of choreographer Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet based on Hoffman's tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his music for the two-act ballet "The Nutcracker" in 1892. Although it took until the 1960s for the complete ballet to build the broad popularity ...