It’s impossible to imagine the Christmas season without “The Nutcracker,” a beloved ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Written in 1892, this two-act classical ballet remains a symbol of the holiday ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will present a diverse lineup for its 2026-27 season, including five major productions. The season ...

Sure, for many of us the appreciation of British choreographer Bourne’s reinvention of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet – the first show in PlayhouseSquare’s 2013-14 Broadway Series – will run only so ...

FOR the first time in its 175-year history, the acclaimed State Ballet of Georgia comes to Belfast’s Grand Opera House with a full length production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. The company’s ...

Peter I. Tchaikovsky wrote three classic ballets, but until now, the Kansas City Ballet has only performed two of them: Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Besides completing its repertoire of Tchaikovsky ...

Like ballet companies around the world, the Tchaikovsky Ballet from Perm, Russia, cherishes “The Sleeping Beauty.” As a model of technique and style, this ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1890 ...

George Balanchine was a choreographer of uncanny musicality, able to extract impetus for movement from an astonishingly broad range of scores. He used an Igor Stravinsky piece for the spare, ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...