This sumptuous traditional production was filmed at the historic Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia where the original Nutcracker was first performed over 120 years ago.

End of the empire, and the Bolsheviks took over.” Inside the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, where “The Nutcracker” was being created, things were also in a fragile state. Petipa’s 15-year-old ...

Indeed they have — back in 2003 when the Mariinsky Ballet performed a controversial, nightmare-tinged “Nutcracker” at the Opera House. That version, too, began in a kitchen hung with meat ...

The Nutcracker was based on a creepy story by ... Tchaikovsky would compose the music and the Mariinsky Theatre’s ballet master Marius Petipa would choreograph the dances for the in-house ...

“The Nutcracker” debuted in December 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikosky’s spellbinding score animated by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s ...

Shklyarov was a star dancer at the Mariinsky, the historic opera and ... for his performances in classic ballets including The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty and Manon, and had ...

BRATTLEBORO — "The Nutcracker" is one of those iconic ballets that has ... Originally premiered in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, this ballet was considered a ...

A Mariinsky spokesperson told Russian News outlet ... with contemporary and classical ballets alike, ranging from “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote” to George Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky ...