Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

It is Christmas eve and Clara and Fritz's parents are throwing their annual holiday party. The mysterious guest, the toymaker Herr Drosselmeyer, arrives with life-size dancing dolls to entertain the family and their guests, but he saves his most special gift for his god-daughter Clara, a nutcracker doll. That night, the tree begins to grow, the toy soldiers and the Mouse King have a battle, and Clara's nutcracker turns into a handsome prince! This...

"A beautiful swan held captive by a curse...A young prince who falls in love with her...And an evil sorceress determined to keep them apart...So sets the stage for the stunning and dramatic story of Swan Lake, a suspenseful tale of loyalty, deceit, and ultimately unfailing love. From the moonlight dances with swans to the twirling, whirling of the Swan Queen and her prince, this is the ultimate class tale reimagined by the New York City Ballet and...

Five CD collection including works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Grieg, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy.

Tchaikovsky's most popular opera, the tale of a lovelorn girl and a jaded aristocrat. Star soprano Renée Fleming sings the role of Tatiana for the first time at the Met in Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings the title role with Ramón Vargas as Lenski. Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

From an imperial-era Russian Christmas party, a young girl named Clara is whisked in her dreams to an imaginary world populated by the animated creations of the wizard toy maker Drosselmeier. Clara innocently develops a crush on the imaginary Nutcracker prince. Upon her arrival in the Land of the Sweets, she dances a yearning pas de deux with the Nutcracker Prince. It makes the ballet far more interesting. The frequent involvement of Drosselmeyer...