The History of the Nutcracker Ballet

StageLync: The two act Christmas story has been on stage since its premier a week before Christmas in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, the show didn’t expand to western countries until the 1940s, nearly 50 years after its original debut. While everyone these days knows of the tale of young Clara and her Christmas Eve adventure, not many know of the origins of the classic bedtime story.