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 ...

At the beginning of Act II of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet production of "The Nutcracker," Drosselmeier tries to whip up a holiday confection. He has enthusiastic help from a group of adorable angels, ...

To celebrate the holidays, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the orchestra will share music from Tchaikovsky’s iconic Nutcracker score. Running the gamut from radiant lyricism to jaw-dropping fireworks, ...

Dave Hurlbert, co-founder of the Marigny Opera House and its ballet company, has seen more than his fair share of holiday performances of “The Nutcracker.” He says he has a love/hate relationship with ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker," with Maurice Cohn at the helm, at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Allison Slomowitz / Special ...

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 ...

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 unbounded success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie this summer followed by the Christmas season’s many stagings of “The Nutcracker,” danced to Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score, combined to spark my memory ...