Question: The Nutcracker was given its premier at what historic theater of opera and ballet that opened in 1860?
Context: The Indiana Theatre is a historic theater in Terre Haute, Indiana.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1997 and is located in the Wabash Avenue-East Historic District.  It opened on January 28, 1922.  The theatre was built by Terre Haute resident T. W. Barhydt and was designed by John Eberson.  Eberson, who later developed the atmospheric theater style of movie palace, first experimented with atmospheric design elements at the theatre.  Eberson stated, "Into this Indiana Theatre I have put my very best efforts and endeavors in the art of designing a modern theatre such as I have often pictured as what I would do were I given a free hand."  Through this quote Eberson confirms that the Indiana Theatre embodies his vision of a dream theater that marked the shift to his atmospheric style. The Mariinsky Theatre (Russian: Мариинский театр , Mariinskiy Teatr, also spelled Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia.  Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres.  Through most of the Soviet era, it was known as the Kirov Theatre.  Today, the Mariinsky Theatre is home to the Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Opera and Mariinsky Orchestra.  Since Yuri Temirkanov's retirement in 1988, the conductor Valery Gergiev has served as the theatre's general director. The Pantages Theatre is an historic theater in Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States of America.  It opened in 1918 as the Pantages Theater, after the name of its owner, Alexander Pantages.  Babe Ruth performed there in 1927.  Abbott and Costello, Will Rogers, and many other celebrities also performed in the theater during its heyday.  Formerly also known as the RKO Orpheum and later as the Utah Theater, it was built in 1918.  The theater was originally built for vaudeville at the princely sum of over two million dollars, making it among the most expensive and opulent structures in the Pantages theater chain.  The structure, designed by celebrated architect B. Marcus Priteca, was built in the interior of a city block, and reached by long grand gallery extending to Main Street.  The interior lobby was done in an exotic neo-classical style, [the touted Pantages Greek] with ornate plaster work, an inlaid marble floor, and ramps ascending to the mezzanine level.  The interior was accented with Alaskan marble and faux tile.  The auditorium's proscenium was flanked with marble columns and gilded opera boxes.  The hall's ceiling was decorated with a Tiffany skylight.  The main floor of the auditorium seated 1700, and the balcony accommodated an additional 600 patrons.  The theater functioned as a vaudeville venue through the 1920s, before being converted into a movie palace during the 1930s.  Through most of the decade, the theater was owned by Radio-Keith Orpheum and was renamed the RKO Orpheum.  By 1937, however, it had taken the name the Utah Theater, which has endured to the present.  One of the highlights of the Utah as a movie venue was during the mid-1960s, when the Sound of Music had a run in the theater that lasted two years.  In 1968, the theater was split into upper and lower levels, with the balcony being transformed into a second auditorium.  This architectural arrangement, commonly known as "piggybacking," was frequently imposed on older traditional theaters during the 1960s and early 1970s.  With this transformation, an escalator ascended from the Utah's mezzanine to the top rows of the balcony.  During the remodeling the proscenium, box seating and some of the elaborate ornamentation was removed.  In 1988, the structure ceased operation as a movie theater, and was used by local dance company until 1992, when the building was sold.  After passing through the hands of various owners, the vacant building was purchased by the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency in 2009.  At this time there are no definitive plans for the future of this theater. Sandra Madgwick Crossley (born in 1963) is a retired English ballerina and former principal dancer at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, where she worked for 19 years.  She initially trained at the Royal Ballet School and took over extensive roles both at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden appearing in works such as The Nutcracker, The Two Pigeons, Coppélia, Les Patineurs, and Carmina Burana.  She is well known for the role of Clara in the recorded and live-aired performance of 'The Nutcracker' in 1994.  Her other recorded works include the studio-recorded performance of Hobson's Choice (1992), in which she starred as Hobson's daughter Vicky.  She holds a master's degree in Dance in Education and the Community and is currently ballet tutor at Performers College and Dance East.  She is married and has three sons. The Grand Theatre is a historic theater located in Wheaton, Illinois.  It opened on May 25, 1925 with 1,000 seats, and hosted live drama, silent films, and vaudeville performances.  The theater changed hands many times in the 20th century, and at various times was known as the Paramount Theatre and The Wheaton Theatre.  In the late 1990s, the theater was used for second-run films, and more recently, as a small concert hall for rock and roll bands.  The theater was donated to the non-profit Grand Theater Corporation in October 2001.  In the fall of 2005, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.  It was closed in 2006 for a full renovation of the property and the Grand Theater Corporation was anticipating to re-open it as a single screen theater in late 2011.  However, Wheaton rejected a plan to allocate $19.3 million to finance the renovation and the theater's debts.  Wheaton Park District is currently considering a $10 million plan that would reopen the theater with 860 seats.  The theater will feature a donated Morton organ from the 1920s, originally from one of the Loew's Wonder Theatres. The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean and Fernando Schaffenburg in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet, in Fort Worth, Texas.  It became a fully professional ballet company in 1985.  In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra. Tchaikovsky's now-classic ballet The Nutcracker received its first complete production in the U.S. on 24 December 1944, performed by the San Francisco Ballet.  This production used the ballet's original plot and was choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier.  Gisella Caccialanza, the wife of Lew Christensen, danced the rôle of the Sugar Plum Fairy.  The staging was a huge success and one critic wrote: "We can't understand why a vehicle of such fantastic beauty and originality could be produced in Europe in 1892 with signal success ["a factually erroneous claim"] and never be produced in its entirety in this country until 1944.  Perhaps choreographers will make up for lost time from now on."  The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine's production opened in New York in 1954.  (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet "Nutcracker" began in 1949.) The Grand Opera House, also known as the Janey Slaughter Briscoe Grand Opera House is a historic theater in Uvalde, Texas.  Built in 1891, it became a premier arts venue in Southwest Texas for plays, musicals, and cultural performances.  The Opera house is the oldest functioning theater in the state of Texas and presents plays and concerts by local and touring companies.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978. The Inland Theater is a historic theater located in Martin, Bennett County, South Dakota, United States.  The Inland Theater is the second theater constructed in the city of Martin.  The first theater, the Allen Theater, was built in 1925 and 1926 and was one of the first theaters in western South Dakota to show talkie movies.  The Allen theater was destroyed by a tornado in 1939, and soon thereafter, construction of the Inland Theater began in September 1939.  The Inland theater was constructed in the Art Deco style of architecture and held 300 people.  The theater opened on January 14, 1940 and continued until 1991, when it was put up for sale.  In 1997 the Inland theater was purchased and reopened. The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / "Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"    ; French: "Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie" ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).  The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by way of Alexandre Dumas' adapted story "The Nutcracker".  It was given its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera "Iolanta".
Answer: The Mariinsky Theatre