Every December, the Cairo Opera House celebrates the Christmas by a series of events, with the Nutcracker being the most special performance. The tickets' prices start from 110 L.E. to 310 L.E. About the Nutcracker: Its Libretto is adapted by French Alexandre Dumas Père, from German Ernst Hoffmann’s novella “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, its music is composed by legendary Russian Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and is choreographed by French Marius Petipa and Russian Lev Ivanov.