Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In many ways Wiley’s book is a revisionist history. The traditional view, especially prevalent among musicians, ...

How did Tchaikovsky’s ballet become a staple of the festive season? Clemency Burton-Hill goes in search of The Nutcracker’s universal appeal. It’s as quintessentially Christmassy as mince pies, fir ...

As a grand culmination to the Festival of Russian Culture in India, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ ballet is being performed by a group of dancers from the Bolshoi theatre. This will be the first time the ...

Tchaikovsky's second and longest ballet failed to take off in the composer's lifetime but is now a worldwide favourite. Tchaikovsky's second ballet was premiered in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St ...

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.

An all-Tchaikovsky ballet program: In concept, who can quarrel? But what looked good on paper proved somewhat flat in execution when the New York City Ballet opened its six-day series at the Kennedy ...

Chances are you don’t know a fouetté from a chaîné, but it’s likely that you’ve seen these classical ballet steps performed to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky–and can recognize the tunes. The ...

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 ...

Some of the world's most renowned ballet dancers will soon be pirouetting, leaping and gliding across the stage at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The Perm, Russia-based Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet ...

It's Nutcracker season and venues across the country are filling up with the sounds of sugar plum fairies and waltzing flowers. While visiting Paris, Tchaikovsky heard Victor Mustel's new invention: ...