Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker Tickets

Ron Cunningham was made the Artistic Director of the ballet in 1988. He along with Carinne Binda, his wife, managed to promote the company quite a lot. Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker was introduced in 2008 and is among the top classics presented by the company. Other of his hit creations included The Rite of Spring, Carmina Burana, Bolero and Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet in classics. The company has the work of artists such as Agnes de Mille, David Parson, Septime Webre and Glen Tetley. The ballet has completed eighteen seasons, in which thirty-four world premieres have been added. The ballet is considered as community’s asset and keeps receiving extraordinary reviews for the quality of the creations.

Sacramento Ballet has a great part in contributing towards the services in community as well as in education. Around the region, it is one of the leading companies in providing education and arts to the society. The company tours through the world, as far as China. Through the continuous outreaching programs, the ballet manages participants around 40,000 every year. Company’s mission is to promote talent and provide the finest ballets to the region and to inspire and educate the society.

Sacramento Ballet gets its funding every year from the government agencies as well as different foundations and corporations that include, "Sacramento Regional Foundation", "California Arts Council", "Target Stores", "Raley’s Stores", "The James Irvine Foundation", "Metropolitan Arts Council" and "National Endowment for the Arts". With the growing budget of the company, the attendance in the theatre has increased up to 80,000 in every season. The artists are mostly the residents of the area. A large crowd is witnessed around the Christmas season, especially at the Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker show.

Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker is based on the original The Nutcracker which was choreographed by Lev Ivanov and had the original score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The original production of The Nutcracker was first staged on December 18th of 1892 in St. Petersburg at "Mariinsky Theatre". Libretto for the ballet was inspired from the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann named "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". The production couldn’t make an instant success, but its artistic mastery was later recognized, and since then it has been re-produced and staged several times across the globe. The Nutcracker especially earned fame through the 20th Century, and is today a favorite show of holiday season, especially around Christmas in United States.

Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker brings to the audience a brand new era of the ballet. The Nutcracker ballet includes live music being performed by "Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra" at the back of every staging. It is said that no matter what mood, the ballet manages to make the audience happier and a bit more light hearted by the time they leave the theater. The classic brings to the stage Snowflakes, Marching Soldiers, Christmas tree and Huge Mice. And that’s not just all; there is the Russian dance and Flowers Waltz as well as Ginger Mother to make you laugh. A holiday evening cannot get better than this for the whole family, so why wait? Grab your share of Sacramento Ballet The Nutcracker tickets from us right away!