The Nutcracker Chronicles PNB Kids 2012 edition from Random House

2012 edition from Random House

Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z

Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas

and the ferocious battle between the Mouse King and the Nutcracker

Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement

The Nutcracker Chronicles PNB Kids 2012 edition from Random HouseThe Nutcracker Chronicles, a modern twist on the beloved holiday ballet, intertwines the story of Clara and her nutcracker prince with the true life stories that unfold backstage. The curtain rises on Ballet El Pasos production of The Nutcracker, where young Janine Kovac is cast as Fritz, the boy who breaks the nutcracker. Her director is Ingeborg Heuser, a German woman who once performed for Hitler and who peppers her teaching with insults like, Why