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A fanfare of brass instruments erupted from the orchestra pit, punctuating the nearly dead silent auditorium. The curtain raised to reveal not a cast of exquisitely dressed ballerinas,...
[mediagrid cat="34220"]A deafening silence draped over the crowd in the Boston Opera House as the lights dimmed and the curtains rose. A boat full of pirates in a stormy sea appear behind the scrim, only...
In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned ballet, “The Nutcracker,” the shifty-yet-kind Herr Drosselmeyer gives the blue-eyed, pure Clara Silberhaus a nutcracker toy for Christmas. That evening, from...