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Events on Sunday 18 December 1892 1
1892Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker premieresBallet debuts at the Mariinsky TheatrePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, choreographed by Lev Ivanov, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Initial reviews were mixed, but the work later became one of the most performed ballets in the world.