FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 11, 2011
CONTACT: Jo Anne Emery Phone: (619) 846-8774
City Ballet’s Award-Winning Nutcracker
Expands to Eleven Performances
San Diego —City Ballet of San Diego’s award-winning production of the classic holiday ballet “The Nutcracker” expands it annual run this year to eleven performances, Dec. 9 - 21, 2011.
Voted “San Diego’s BestNutcracker” (Tommy Dance Award), and described by the San Diego Union-Tribune as “a plum of a Nutcracker,” City Ballet’s 17th annual Nutcracker returns to the historic Spreckels Theatre in downtown San Diego for eleven performances, accompanied by The City Ballet Orchestra conducted by John Nettles.
Directors Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich, formerly of the Boston Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet, have created a lavish production with their company of professional dancers. Fashioned after the choreography of the great Russian master, Lev Ivanov, who created the very first Nutcracker more than 100 years ago, the production is dazzling, with virtuoso dancing complemented by opulent sets and costumes. Children’s roles are performed by talented young dancers from the City Ballet School, the official school of City Ballet.
Performances are Friday, December 9 at 7:30pm; Saturday, December 10 at 2pm and 7:30pm; Sunday, December 11 at 2pm; Friday, December 16 at 7:30pm; Saturday, December 17 at 2pm and 7:30pm;
Sunday, December 18 at 2pm; Tuesday, December 20 at 7:30pm and Wednesday, December 21 at 2pm and 7:30pm.
The Bristol Hotel is hosting a special Lunch with Sugar Plum Fairy and her Friends prior to both Saturday matinées, at $20 for adults and $15 for children. A post concert Champagne On-Stage Reception with priority seating in the orchestra section is also offered each Saturday evening for $79 per person.
To order Lunch tickets, Priority tickets, or for more information please call City Ballet’s Box Office at (858) 272-8663. For tickets call TicketMaster at (800) 745-3000 to charge by phone or visit any TicketMaster location. Please visit City Ballet’s web site at to order on line.
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THE NUTCRACKER
Dec. 9-21, 2011
Spreckels Theatre, 121 Broadway in downtown San Diego
Friday, December 9 at 7:30pm
Saturday, December 10 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, December 11 at 2pm
Friday, December 16 at 7:30pm
Saturday, December 17 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, December 18 at 2pm
Tuesday, December 20 at 7:30pm
Wednesday, December 21 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Tickets are $59, $49, $39 and $29
• On both Saturday nights priority seating is offered with a post concert onstage champagne reception for $79 per person
• Lunch with the Sugar Plum Fairy and Friends is offered both Saturdays at 12noon at the Bristol Hotel:
Adults $20, Children $15
All programs are subject to change without notice.
For tickets or more information call City Ballet’s Box Office at (858) 272-8663.
Go to City Ballet’s web site at to order online.
ABOUT CITY BALLET
“City Ballet has become San Diego’s most professional troupe.”
— Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union-Tribune
Heralded as “a top-tier dance company” and “an oasis of classical dance in a city otherwise too often a desert,” City Ballet is San Diego’s world-class professional ballet company, now celebrating its nineteenth season, and under the direction of former Boston Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet dancers Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich. City Ballet is a non-profit organization committed to furthering the ballet art form.The company produces classic and contemporary ballet programs that critics rave as “polished, eye-catching and delightful,” and “highly entertaining and professional.” International dance critic Sheila Orysiek wrote in 2006, “San Diego finally has a classical ballet company that is worthy of the name.” City Ballet’s productions have made the Top Ten Dance Events of the Year named by the San Diego Union-Tribune for the past five years.
Unsurpassed training programs for children and pre-professionals are offered at City Ballet School, the official school for the City Ballet Company, whose alumnae dance with companies including American Ballet Theatre, Pittsburg Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet.City Ballet’s innovative education programs range from arts outreach to inner-city children to bringing the world’s best ballet instructors to San Diego.
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