The Nutcracker Tickets

Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Redondo Beach, USA

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Important Info

Type: Ballet

City: Redondo Beach, USA

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

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If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

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Overview

Los Angeles Ballet’s The Nutcracker is the city’s own holiday tradition, perfect for celebrating the season. Set to Tchaikovsky’s iconic score, you will be captivated as Clara and her beloved Nutcracker battle a most memorable Mouse King, encounter dancing Snowflakes and travel to the Palace of the Dolls.

Los Angeles Ballet stays true to the traditions of the holiday story with some surprises! This production is set in 1912 Los Angeles. Throughout the five scenes in two acts you will find hints and tastes of Southern California - a Spanish style home, calla lilies, bougainvillea, the snowy forests of the Sierras, Venice archways, a moonlit Pacific Ocean and more! Adding to the enchantment of The Nutcracker, LAB will perform again with the Los Angeles Ballet Orchestra at Dolby Theatre for four performances from December 20th through December 24th.

You're invited to LAs ultimate family tradition, it's the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season. With original choreography by Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, original set design by Catherine Kanner, and costume design by Mikael Melbye - set to Tchaikovsky's iconic score.

History

Premiere of this production: 06 December 1892, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg

The Nutcracker (Russian: Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya About this soundlisten 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".

Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker. The ballet's score has been used in several film adaptations of Hoffmann's story.

Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.

Synopsis

Act I
On Christmas Eve, young Clara attends a festive party at her family’s home, where the mysterious toymaker Drosselmeyer gives her a nutcracker doll. After the guests leave and the house grows quiet, Clara returns to the tree and falls into a magical dream. The room transforms, the Christmas tree grows to enormous size, and toys come alive. A fierce battle erupts between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King, ending with the Nutcracker’s victory. He transforms into a Prince and leads Clara through the snowy forest, where the Snow Queen and her shimmering Snowflakes dance in a swirling winter landscape.

Act II
Clara and the Prince arrive in the radiant Kingdom of Sweets, ruled by the Sugar Plum Fairy. In their honor, dancers from many lands perform enchanting divertissements, each representing sweets or treats from around the world. The celebration culminates in the grand pas de deux of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. As the festivities conclude, Clara’s magical journey fades, and she awakens back at home, unsure whether her adventure was a dream — or something wonderfully real.

Venue Info

Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center - Redondo Beach
1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd

With its modernistic Grand Lobby, over 40,000 square feet of special event programming areas, a granite water fall, updated technical and patron amenities, friendly onsite staff and plenty of free parking, the 1,453-seat theater is home to prestigious and highly successful presenters

Distinguished Speaker Series
RBPAC is honored to host its 23rd season with the Distinguished Speaker Series, which has presented such dignitaries as Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Madeleine Albright. Their 2018-2019 Season includes famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, journalist Chris Wallace, former FBI Director James Comey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author/historian Jon Meacham, TV icon and science communicator Alan Alda, and Nat Geo's 2018 Adventurer of the Year, conservation activist/wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen.

Los Angeles Ballet
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center joins the Los Angeles Ballet in celebrating 13 years of artistic and critical success. Los Angeles Ballet presents their 2018-2019 Season, featuring Modern Moves: Directors Choice, their holiday classic The Nutcracker, and the classic Romantic story ballet La Sylphide together with the first ballet George Balanchine created in America, Serenade.