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Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
In 2002, Orr premiered his Pittsburgh-inspired production of The Nutcracker. In 2003, the company's endowment reached $9.4 million and in June 2004 Steven Libman stepped down as Managing Director. [5] In 2006, Harris N. Ferris was named executive director and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre began a fundraising campaign to restore the ballet ...
It is the major opera, ballet, and large-scale musical venue of the center, and closed during the 2003/2004 season for extensive renovations which provided a revised seating arrangement and redesigned entrances at the orchestra level. [33] It is the home of the Washington National Opera and the annual Kennedy Center Honors. [34]
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PITTSBURGH ― Trans-Siberian Orchestra will make its annual Pittsburgh appearance Dec. 16 at PPG Paints Arena. The Christmas prog-rock spectacle will take place at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
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Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
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.