The magic spell of “Nutcracker” begins after the lights go down and before the curtain rises, before a dancer has set a toe on stage. From the orchestra pit come the delicate strains of Tchaikovsky’s ...

Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” opened to a paltry $20.4 million ($58.5 million worldwide) last weekend, a box office bomb given its production budget of $130 million. But it is far from ...

In fact, for Cincinnati Ballet, it’s “Nutcracker” time for the 51st year. (That’s 52 if you count the 2020 pandemic version, an hourlong TV broadcast.) There are other long-running holiday traditions ...

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, ...

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The lights over the audience dim. The sound of the orchestra rises from the pit. As the curtain begins to rise, the Musical Arts Center is taken into a magical world, the world of “The Nutcracker.” ...