Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring “The Nutcracker” & More

Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring “The Nutcracker” & More

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Fort Myers. Get your tickets now to discover music inspired by the winter and holiday spirit at Music & Arts Community Center under the gentle glow of candlelight.

General Info
📍 Venue: Music & Arts Community Center – Gulf Coast Symphony
📅 Dates and times: select your dates/times directly in the ticket selector
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes (doors open 45 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is ADA compliant
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert (min 40+ people), please click here
🎻 Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Fort Myers
🎁 To treat your friends and family to a Candlelight gift card, click here

Tentative Program

  • Holiday Medley – Various
  •  Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  •  The First Noël
  •  Deck the Halls
  • O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam
  • The Snow is Dancing – Claude Debussy
  • The Seasons, Op. 37a: – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  •  I. January. “By the Hearth”
  •  XII. December. “Christmas”
  • The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 RV 297: “Winter” – Vivaldi
  • 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

  • Listeso String Quartet

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