Question: The Nutcracker was given its premier at what historic theater of opera and ballet that opened in 1860?

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.) <SEP>  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". 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". <SEP>  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. 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.  Since Yuri Temirkanov's retirement in 1988, the conductor Valery Gergiev has served as the theatre's general director. <SEP> 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.