Tue, Dec 15
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet — Jacobs Music Center, San Diego
You felt it the first time as a child — the moment the overture swells and the stage dissolves into a world where tin soldiers march and snowflakes dance in formation. That feeling never left. It just went dormant, waiting for a December evening dark enough to wake it up.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches.
Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages.
This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.
You felt it the first time as a child — the moment the overture swells and the stage dissolves into a world where tin soldiers march and snowflakes dance in formation. That feeling never left. It just went dormant, waiting for a December evening dark enough to wake it up.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches.
Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages.
This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches.
Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages.
This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.
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You felt it the first time as a child — the moment the overture swells and the stage dissolves into a world where tin soldiers march and snowflakes dance in formation. That feeling never left. It just went dormant, waiting for a December evening dark enough to wake it up.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches.
Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages.
This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches.
Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages.
This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.
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