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The Alexandra Ballet is a pre-professional ballet company in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1949, that cultivates top dance talent. [1] The company regularly performs classical ballets including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pas de Quatre, Les Sylphides, and an annual performance of The Nutcracker.
Outside of the St. Louis area, he is the Conductor for the Metropolitan Ballet of Topeka, where he conducts The Nutcracker every December. Burke also conducted Amahl and the Night Visitors in Jefferson City, Missouri, during the 2008 holiday season. He teaches voice at East Central College in Union and St. Louis University. He conducts concerts ...
The Muny, or the Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, is a not-for-profit municipally-owned outdoor theatre, the largest in the United States. The Theater was built and opened in 1917 with 6 performances of Verdi's Aida .
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
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That year, Alexandra Ballet received the first Astral Foundation Choreographers Award from the National Association for Regional Ballet. In 1949, Zaharias first opened the Alexandra School of Ballet at Olive and Boyle in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to 1949, there were few ballet schools or ballet teachers in St. Louis.