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Performer: Marius Petipa

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LondonNutcracker

English National Ballet
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Aaron Watkin; Arielle Smith; English National Ballet; Maria Seletskaja; Dick Bird; Paul Pyant

BudapestThe Nutcracker

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Hungarian National Ballet; Hungarian National Ballet Institute; Paul Marsovszky; Sámuel Csaba Tóth; Péter Dobszay; Beáta Vavrinecz

StockholmSwan Lake

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Rudolf Nureyev; Royal Swedish Ballet; Philippe Béran; Ezio Frigerio; Franca Squarciapino; Vinicio Cheli
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Ballet superstars in Frankfurt for a night to savour

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For one night only, audiences in Frankfurt were treated to some world class ballet on the expansive stage of the Jahrhunderthalle.
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The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker: exceptional performances

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The Royal Ballet opened the Christmas season with a superlative performance of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker.
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30 years on, Bourne’s Swan Lake still shines in Amsterdam

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Thirty years after its original production, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake makes its return to the stage championed by an impressive ensemble of dance artists from Bourne’s own company New Adventures.
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ParisLe Lac des cygnes

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Rudolf Nureyev; Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris; Valery Ovsyanikov; Ezio Frigerio; Franca Squarciapino; Vinicio Cheli

HelsinkiGiselle

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Adam: Giselle
Jean Coralli; Jules Perrot; Marius Petipa; Javier Torres; Finnish National Ballet; Gavin Sutherland; Annukka Pykäläinen; Erika Turunen; Heikki Paasonen
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Stepping into Petipa’s shoes: Tamara Rojo on creating a new Raymonda

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The Artistic Director of English National Ballet reflects on her company's lockdown achievements and discusses her first foray into choreography to revive a 19th-century classic. 

Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty

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The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular appeal. 

Stepping into Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake

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Ask anyone who claims to know nothing about ballet to actually name one, the chances are it will be one of Tchaikovsky's, with Swan Lake high on the list.