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)
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone

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