Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also writes about politics and cricket for The Telegraph and is the editor of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries. He sits in the House of Lords ...
The unbounded success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie this summer followed by the Christmas season’s many stagings of “The Nutcracker,” danced to Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score, combined to spark my memory ...
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is a ballet for a certain time of year. It's charmed Christmas audiences over the years with its range of gorgeous music and romantic imagery, but the performances and ...
It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights and as ...
In 1892, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa debuted “The Nutcracker,” a two-act ballet about a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker for Christmas. When the ...
In his Birmingham days Sir Simon showed a distinct coolness about Russian Romantic music, but here he lavishes care over the Tchaikovsky ballet most closely associated with Christmas. The opportunity ...
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