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Opened. November 4, 1929; 94 years ago. ( November 4, 1929) The Civic Opera House, also called Lyric Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The Civic's main performance space, named for Ardis Krainik, seats 3,563, making it the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, after the Metropolitan Opera House.
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 Eveat the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's ...
December 11, 2021. Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Dancer. choreographer. Title. Founder and artistic director of Von Heidecke's Chicago Festival Ballet and Von Heidecke School of Ballet. Kenneth von Heidecke (December 30, 1952 – December 11, 2021) was an American dancer, choreographer, and the founder and artistic director of Von ...
Dec. 8: "The Hip Hop Nutcracker" will return to Playhouse Square at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre, 1519 Euclid Ave. Cost is $28-$68. See playhousesquare.org or call 216-241-6000.
The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during its annual performance season at the Civic Opera House, including its annual presentation of The Nutcracker. Founded in 1956 by dance pioneers Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino ...
For 2019, the contestants were The Australian Ballet 's production of Peter Wright's Nutcracker, the Royal Opera House's 2016 Nutcracker, the Mariinsky's 2012 Nutcracker, the Czech National Ballet's 2017 The Nutcracker and the Cuddly Mouse and the Opernhaus Zurich's 2018 The Nutcracker .
The Nutcracker. (Balanchine) 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 ...
Carlos Acosta, the Cuban-born ballet star, has danced “The Nutcracker” countless times in his glittering career. Acosta is choreographing and directing his new show, “Nutcracker in Havana ...