The Bolshoi has launched a two week Nutcracker marathon, traditionally held around the New Year and Orthodox Christmas. Tickets to all 20 performances at Russia's historic and world famous theatre have been sold out months ahead of the show dates. Tchaikovsky's popular ballet, 'Nutcracker' is regularly performed at Christmas on the world's stages.
Tchaikovsky'scontinuingpopularityandthedurabilityof
hismusicisaphenomenonstudiedbyscholarsandmusic
critics.
This season, other Tchaikovsky works have been presented in Moscow's theatres, such as 'Eugene Onegin', 'The Queen of Spades' and 'Swan Lake'. Berlin's Staatsoper showed a new production of 'Eugene Onegin' with conductor Daniel Barenboim. A 'Revealing Tchaikovsky' festival at the Southbank Centre in London, with Jurowski's LPO and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, sought to dispel some enduring myths about the composer.
Tchaikovsky's continuing popularity and the durability of his music is a phenomenon studied by scholars and music critics.
Many think the answer can be found in the degree to which Tchaikovsky dared to explore and express in his music the full range of human emotions and feelings.
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