Candlelight: Holiday Special featuring “The Nutcracker” and More

⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Cincinnati. Get your tickets now to discover Holiday-inspired music at Memorial Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight.

General Info
📍 Venue: Memorial Hall OTR
📅 Dates and times: select your dates/times directly in the ticket selector
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes. Doors open 45 minutes before the show and close 5 minutes prior to the start. Late arrivals will not be permitted
👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: Accessibility: this venue is ADA compliant (Balcony seating requires the use of stairs)
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🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
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Tentative Program

• Holiday Medley – Various

  • “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”

  • “The First Noël”

  • “Deck the Halls”

• “O Holy Night” – Adolphe Adam

• “Ma’oz Tzur” – Traditional Hanukkah Song

• “The Snow is Dancing” – Claude Debussy

• “The Seasons, Op. 37a” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  • I. January. “By the Hearth”

  • XII. December. “Christmas”

• “The Skaters’ Waltz, Op. 183 (Les Patineurs)” – Émile Waldteufel

• “Greensleeves (What Child is This)” – Traditional

• Holiday Medley

  • “Joy to the World”

  • “Angels We Have Heard on High”

  • “Away in a Manger”

• “The Nutcracker, Op. 71” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  • Miniature Overture

  • Act I, Scene II: No. 2, “March”

  • Act II: No. 12d, Divertissement. “Trepak, Russian Dance”

  • Act II: No. 13, “Waltz of the Flowers”

  • Act II: No. 14c, Pas de Deux. Variation II, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”

Performers

• StringSource String Quartet