This small German town in the Ore Mountains is considered by many as the birthplace of the Nutcracker doll. Due to the town’s rich access to wood, Seiffen has become home to the world’s finest ...

The first production of the ballet “The Nutcracker” was held in the U.S. in 1944. and some soldiers returning from World War II brought back with them German-made nutcrackers as souvenirs ...

“Everything about ‘The Nutcracker’ is much better — the ... Britain’s National Gallery put on a series of concerts featuring German composers like Beethoven. The director of the gallery ...

Shunning Russian music, art, and literature, despite having deep historic links with such works, will not do much for ...

Its Christmas Eve narrative about a German family visited by an eccentric ... mice and toys—particularly a sharp-jawed, bearded nutcracker—play parts.

It also offers new items like German nutcrackers, smokers, pyramids, ceramics, wood miniatures and more. Owner Elizabeth Sheaffer has had a booth at Irondale Pickers since July of this year but ...

The nutcracker comes to life. But so do the mice from under the stairs!” Swan Lake – whose original libretto was based on The Stolen Veil (1791) by the German satirist Johann Karl August ...

German-style outdoor market featuring international ... Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 and 6 p.m. Sundays, through Dec ...

THE Nutcracker is, needless to say, a wintertime staple in the programme of many (if not most) national ballet companies. So it is with ...

Its Christmas Eve narrative about a German family visited by an eccentric ... mice and toys—particularly a sharp-jawed, bearded nutcracker—play parts. That initial Russian staging is no ...

Many Americans dream of retiring in Europe, though not everyone can pull it off. For those who can't, one solution is to find ...