⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Christchurch. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and more ft. ballet at The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts under the gentle glow of candlelight.
General Info
📍 Venue: The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts
📅 Dates and times: 25 November at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. (select during purchase)
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes. Doors open 30 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: this venue is wheelchair accessible
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️ Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (+30 people), click here
Programme
- Swan Lake Waltz
- Swan Lake Theme 🩰
- Dance of the Little Swans 🩰
- Sleeping Beauty Waltz 🩰
- Romeo and Juliet Overture 🩰
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 🩰
- Arabian Dance 🩰
- Chinese Dance
- March 🩰
- Pas De Deux
- Trepak
- Dance of the Merlitons 🩰
- Por Una Cabeza 🩰
- Waltz of the Flowers 🩰
🩰 Guest performance by ballerinas with these pieces
Performers
- Real Entertainment String Quartet
- Anne Lardner - Violin
- Iselta Allison - Violia
- Sharon Bayliss - Viola
- Hugo Zanker - Cello
- Directed by Anna-Marie Alloway
- Dancers: Ariah Mandeno, and Sophi-Kate Groen (choreographed by Lesley Bandy)
- Strings were brilliant, best choice of music. The ballet dancers did a wonderful job - 2 of them had come out of covid isolation in the last week & felt unwell, bit didn't let it show
- to sit and lose oneself in the magic of Tchaikovsky performed so brilliantly and enjoy the spectacular ballet.............Amazing............I wanted more!!
- We had a great experience. The number of candles was amazing & gave the auditorium a great atmosphere. The string quartet & ballet dancers were really good too. A really good choice of music. Thank-you
- OMG...this was amazing❤️ The venue was great & the ballerinas & musicians were fabulous - thank you😊
- A very enjoyable performance - long awaited !
- Amazing performance from all!!
- very good, well done
- A very enjoyable evening.
- Loved it!!
- really awesome
- The quartet were outstanding! And the ballerinas were great as well. I did find the 2 together a little distracting. I loved the music, so familiar & that went well with getting back to a live performance. Big tick :)
The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts
The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts is a world-class performing arts venue located in Christchurch. The architectural marvel officially opened in September 2016 and features copper-clad curves an...