The Australian Ballet’s The Nutcracker on the Big Screen

Prepare to be entranced by the beloved Christmas ballet classic, The Nutcracker.

Bring your family and friends to enjoy The Australian Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker, livestreamed from Sydney Opera House.

And thanks to The Australian Ballet, we also have three tickets to give away to one lucky family, for The Sleeping Beauty, an interactive Storytime Ballet experience for children aged three years and older. The tickets are to the 2pm performance on Saturday, 11 January, 2025. To enter, fill out our competition entry form.

About The Nutcracker:

Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker is a magical production of the beloved festive ballet that remains faithful to the 19th-century original.

Tchaikovsky’s last ballet score, with its famous motifs and melodies, draws us into the story of Clara, a young ballet student celebrating with her family on Christmas Eve. When the clock strikes twelve, we enter the dream realm, where Clara’s Nutcracker doll comes to life, taking her on a thrilling adventure where she encounters the Rat King before being whisked away to the Land of Sweets and into the arms of her Nutcracker Prince.

Veteran designer John F. Macfarlane exquisitely evokes the world of this picture-perfect ballet: whirling snowflakes, crackling fires, band-box soldiers, a Christmas tree that grows until it brushes the ceiling and a Sugar Plum Fairy in luscious candy-floss pink.

With the holidays around the corner, there’s no better way than The Nutcracker to rediscover the childlike joys of the season, or to create your own family tradition.

Production credits

Choreography – Peter Wright, Lev Ivanov, Vincent Redmon
Additional choreography courtesy of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Music – Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Costume and set design – John F. Macfarlane
Lighting design – David Finn
Guest Repetiteur – Mark Kay
With – The Australian Girls Choir

The 2024 season of The Nutcracker is generously supported by The K Christiensen & A Bond Bequest, The Melba Cromack Fund and The Margaret Ellen Pidgeon Fund.

Music – With Opera Australia Orchestra.

The Australian Ballet’s The Nutcracker on the Big Screen is presented in partnership with The Australian Ballet.