Experience the magic of New York City Ballet’s iconic holiday classic, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, based on the Alexandre Dumas version of E.T.A Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816). In Act I, Tchaikovsky’s beloved melodies transport the young and the young at heart to a...

The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker is the quintessential Christmas ballet. When her nutcracker toy comes to life, young Clara is transported by the magician Drosselmeyer to a magical world of excitement and delight. With sumptuous period designs, spellbinding stage effects and of course Tchaikovsk...

Ballett Zurich’s striking production of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a spectacular contemporary version of the great Tchaikovsky ballet by visionary choreographer Christian Spuck. Emphasizing the fantastical nature of the origin material rather than the delightful Christmas fairytale, Spu...

Patrice Bart's staging of the Nutcracker holiday classic premiered at Berlin State Opera in 1999. Christmas provides the realistic setting for a fantastic plot featuring Vladimir Malakhov—one of the greatest dancers of his generation—with Nadja Saidakova dancing the famous Grand Pas de Deux and O...

First presented in December 1892, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is one of the most beloved ballets today. On Christmas Eve, a young girl has a dream. An emotional awakening of childhood that slowly merges into adulthood. While children revel in Drosselmeyer’s magic tricks and enjoy a good scare wi...

Tchaikovsky’s iconic music for the beloved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker makes this Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's Christmas Matinee (Kerstmatinee) program truly irresistible. Tchaikovsky expert Semyon Bychkov conducts the complete ballet score in this joyous holiday concert from 2018 featurin...