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Ballerinas protest outside Opéra Garnier

Ballerinas perform ‘Swan Lake’ in protest against France’s pension reform

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Brandon Lawrence and Céline Gittens in ‘The Nutcracker’ with Birmingham Royal Ballet

What makes The Nutcracker the perfect Christmas ballet? Catherine Bott asks Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Brandon Lawrence

Christmas

Derek Jacobi narrates The Nutcracker on Christmas Day

Listen to Sir Derek Jacobi’s narration of The Nutcracker on Classic FM this Christmas

Christmas

Jordan performs in The Nutcracker

Teenage ballerina in wheelchair achieves dream of dancing in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker

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1812 Overture

Percussionist perfectly dodges a flying bass drum mallet in a hilariously dramatic 1812 Overture

Bassoon squeaky chair

This duet for bassoon and squeaky chair is just hilarious

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Mozart blood

6 pieces of music that killed their composers

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Sydney SO Paper Bags

An orchestra performed Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with PAPER BAGS

FRANCE-BALLET-MADEMOISELLE-JULIE

‘Explore as far as you can go with your imagination – and study like hell!’ – conductor Koen Kessels

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tchaikovsky marble run

An epic marble run PERFECTLY synced up with Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: Soundtrack, trailer, cast and everything you need to know

Happy Birthday in the style of Wagner, Verdi and Debussy

What if Wagner had written Happy Birthday – or Verdi, Debussy or Tchaikovsky?

Wagner

Line Rider set to Tchaikovsky’s ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ is just perfect

Line Rider set to Tchaikovsky’s ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ is utterly ingenious

The best classical music for morning

The best classical music for mornings

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Case Notes Tchaikovsky

How did Tchaikovsky die?

Classical music in wartime

The most moving classical music composed in wartime

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Nobuyuki Tsujii

Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich - live from Liverpool this Thursday!

Pieces the great composers hated

From Boléro to the 1812 Overture: these are the pieces that embarrassed the great composers

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