If you ask Septime Webre what’s so special about “Swan Lake”, he’ll tell you it’s the Tchaikovsky score, the themes and fantastical storyline and the classic choreography. “The music sweeps us into a ...

Remember that part in The Nutcracker when the prince does a solo? (Do you?) Well, it actually featured eight women, and over time choreographers changed the steps so that the women disappeared and it ...

Tonight through Sunday, the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet will be in the midst of touring their landmark production of “Swan Lake.” The company will only be performing in eight cities nationwide, ...

Two months ago, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra was joined on stage for a holiday pops program by the Yakima School of Ballet for excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s final ballet, the much-loved “Nutcracker.” ...

"We are thrilled to partner with the Fairfax Ballet to bring The Nutcracker to thousands of people of all ages in Fairfax County and across the DC region," said Jonathan Kerr, Executive Director, ...

Focus in on a small sliver of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake,” say Act II, No. 14 Scene, and you can hear the composer’s influence on a hundred years of Hollywood scores. In this three-minute excerpt from ...

It is, for so many of us, the permanent soundtrack of the holiday season. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” like no other music, conjures up images for me of warm fireplaces, ...

When you think about "Swan Lake," shimmering costumes and fluttering choreography might come to mind. But how much do you really know about this dramatic ballet? With the Grand Kyiv Ballet bringing ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...