Buffalo News, New York — Two years in the making, it's finally here. Tonight at Shea's Performing Arts Center, the curtain will rise on the big-budget staging of Tchaikovsky's “The Nutcracker,” a collaboration between Neglia Ballet Artists and the Buffalo Philharmonic Or... more info

Guardian Music — Tchaikovsky's sole comic opera, based on a Gogol fairytale, is a little-known rarity. Francesca Zambello, directing it for the second time, can't understand whyWhen someone tells you there's a wonderful opera by Tchaikovsky that for no obvious reason... more info

Detroit Free Press — Let the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" commence! more info