“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

Huguette Wilson, a proud and elegant Frenchwoman who moved to the U.S. in her 20s and lived in Washington, D.C., for more ...