But pausing performances by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the composer behind the quintessential Christmas classic The Nutcracker, is a big ask — and a late ask — for a country like the U.S., where ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A tour through five cases in which Tchaikovsky’s classical score has been taken up by jazz legends and misguided filmmakers. By Hugh Morris ...

Dueling duetJames Streeter as the Mouse King (left) spars with Junor Souza, playing the Nutcracker, in a 2010 production of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet presented by the English National Ballet ...

But it wasn’t until Walt Disney used Tchaikovsky’s music in “Fantasia” and, later, when George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet adopted “The Nutcracker” that it earned wide reknown.

Was Tchaikovsky a tempest or a drudge? The great Russian composer of iconic works like “The Nutcracker” and the “1812 Overture” is generally thought to have lived a life of melodrama.

Based on “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” a fantasy story written in 1816 by Prussian author E.T.A. Hoffmann, “The Nutcracker” was Tchaikovsky’s final ballet and probably one of the ...

It remains one of just three ballets written by Tchaikovsky, but all three are masterpieces: “Swan Lake” (1876), “Sleeping Beauty” (1889) and “The Nutcracker” (1892). This weekend ...

The demanding footwork and Freudian undertones of Rudolf Nureyev’s “The Nutcracker” performed by the Vienna State Ballet is available to view on Carnegie Hall+. Adults dance the main ...

The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such works as The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture—was not a happy man. In his 5,365 extant letters to ...

Listen to how Tchaikovsky uses the celesta in “The Nutcracker,” unleashing the potential of the instrument to signal playfulness and fantasy. By Joshua Barone Photographs and Video by Vincent ...

The music of “Nutcracker Suite” comes with creative liberties – which can also be said for Tchaikovsky’s work. The plot for his ballet is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 short ...