The Gift of the Nutcracker - SOLD OUT
A Christmas ballet filled with both tradition and innovation! The Victoria Symphony plays Tchaikovsky’s timeless score and drive Clara’s adventures on a Christmas night filled with magic and fantastic characters. A fun and festive performance for the whole family.
BUYER BEWARE
The RMTS is the only authorized seller for Ballet Victoria performances at the Royal Theatre. Any other websites offering tickets for sale are resellers and they are not authorized to sell. If you purchase through a reseller you run the risk of the tickets being invalid, being sold in another currency and being charged above market value. Remember, if you buy from a reseller, the RMTS will not able to troubleshoot or assist you with ticketing issues as the RMTS did not sell the tickets.
Behind the Curtain
TICKETS: Starting at $34.00.
On the RMTS website, subscription package seating is automatically assigned within a selected price category. If you desire specific seats, you must call the RMTS box office at 250-386-6121 to reserve.
VENUE: Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street
DATES:
Thursday, December 28 at 7:30PM
Friday, December 29 at 2:00PM
Saturday, December 30 at 2:00PM
On Christmas Eve, a young Clara receives a gift from her uncle—a wooden nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. At night, she is awakened by the noise of mice stirring. Guided by curiosity, she ventures forth and, as if touched by magic, finds herself transformed to the stature of a toy.
In this enchanting moment, the nutcracker, imbued with life, arises to shield her from the malevolent King of the Mice and his cohorts. Their victory unfurled a spell, and the nutcracker transforms into a gallant prince. Clara and her newfound Prince embark on a mesmerizing journey to the bewitched palace of Confiturembourg in the Kingdom of Sweets.
Welcomed by the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Prince Orgeat, they celebrate their victory over the Mice King in a series of delightful dances and waltzes.
Ballet Victoria is proud to have eliminated all colonial stereotypes that can be found in many versions of The Nutcracker, and instead celebrate the best of each culture represented in the divertissements in Act II.
In 1844, Alexandre Dumas adapted the tale of German author Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King into into The Story of a Nutcracker. This rewrite was the most famous and the first inspiration of Pyotr Tchaikovsky when he composed the ballet music. Its first representation at the Saint-Petersburg Opera dates from 1892, and although it was not popular at first, with its fairytale ending and Christmas atmosphere, The Nutcracker has etched its name in history as one of the most renowned and beloved ballets of all time. It’s folk and marvelous inspirations classified The Nutcracker in the genre of the “ballet-féérie”, which was very popular during the second part of the XIX century. To this day, Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular Russian composers of all time, famously recognized for his music compositions of Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and, The Nutcracker.
This ode to imagination and fantasy that takes the viewer to a kingdom of sweets was the last ballet composed by Tchaikovsky before his death in 1893.