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Today in History: The Nutcracker Premieres

Ballet companies worldwide have already passed months in preparations and performances, but it was only on December 18 in 1892 that The Nutcracker, as choreographed, to some disputed degree, by Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa, made its stage debut at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre. For as many choreographic interpretations seen in the century-plus since, from…