[单项选择]The first performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, in St. Petersburg in 1892, was a flop. Wrote one critic the next day: "For dancers there is rather little in it; for art absolutely nothing, and for the artistic fate of our ballet, one more step downward." Two decades passed before another production was attempted.
A century later, the ballet constitutes the single biggest fine-arts moneymaker in the United States, which has claimed the ballet as its own. In 1996, box-office receipts for some 2,400 American performances of the work by more than 20,000 dancers totaled nearly U.S. $50 million. Despite the ballet’s popularity, however, few Americans are aware of its history -- or of some of the twists and turns of fete that have changed it from its original form.
Choreographer Maurice Petipa (known as the "father of classical ballet") prepared the first production for Tchaikovsky in 1892. He based his scenario not on the macabre 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the F
A. He was a French choreographer.
B. He preferred light-hearted music.
C. He produced works of more than one style.
D. He was interested in most of Hoffmann’s stories.

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