Walnut Creek's Diablo Ballet is getting a jump on the holiday entertainment season this weekend with its annual performance of Julia Adam's adaptation of the "Nutcracker Suite." It won't be the same ...

Opening with Modest Mussorgsky's overture to the opera "Khovanshchina," the performance ... names in classical music for veterans and novices alike. Seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker" notwithstanding, ...

Though Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was an immediate success when it premiered in 1892, the full ballet – commissioned by Moscow's Imperial Theatres with choreography by Marius Petipa – didn ...