Ballet is defined by dance, naturally, but it's also the gateway to some of the greatest music in the classical canon. Sometimes it's merely used to colour what's going on on stage, sometimes it's as ...

When “The Nutcracker” opens at Music Hall on Dec. 18, Cincinnati Ballet audiences will meet a new music director, Alyssa Wang ...

Ballet has produced some of the most beautiful music ever written. From Gluck to Tchaikovsky, we explore ballet’s most entrancing scores... Ballet takes movement and music, and elevates it into ...

Ballet Nights has announced the launch and first winner of the Ballet Nights Music Award, a new annual accolade celebrating a ...

If there’s a single moment in ballet that everyone knows, it’s when the swans glide magically on to the stage in Act II of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. It’s been imitated and parodied a thousand times ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Ballet presents "La Sylphide with Études" at the Academy of Music. "They're a perfect balance of classicism. 'La Sylphide' is well known for being a very classical, ...

The symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler are often hailed as the best achievements in orchestral music. But in fact, some of Western classical music's most vibrant symphonic music actually ...