‘Nutcracker’ Is a Casualty of a ‘Quarantine’ of Russian Culture in Lithuania NYT | Top Stories By: Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross 22 December 2024 at 13:01 Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer, igniting a furor. © Andrej Vasilenko for The New York TimesLithuanian’s National Opera and Ballet Theater during intermission at the ballet “Les Millions d’Arlequin” in Vilnius this month.
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