Tag: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

How ‘The Nutcracker’ Has Been Reimagined, for Better and Worse

“The Nutcracker” is a cherished Holiday staple — one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary. There’s a grain of truth in Lisa Simpson’s comment that everybody does “The Nutcracker” “because you don’t have to pay for the music rights.” As the critic Roslyn Sulcas once wrote in The New […]

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