Fındıkkıran - The Nutcracker - Ankara DOB

About this event

Ankara State Opera and Ballet (Ankara Devlet Opera ve Balesi) brings Fındıkkıran, its production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, to the Kırmızı Salon (Red Hall) of the Atatürk Sanat Merkezi, Çankaya Municipality's arts centre beside Eskişehir Yolu at the Bilkent junction. The performance on 17 December 2026 starts at 20:00. Further performances are listed on 19 December (13:00), 21 December (20:00) and 24 December 2026 (20:00). The ballet has two acts. The company's synopsis opens on Christmas Day in the 1850s in the Nuremberg home of the mayor, Herr Stahlabaum, where Doctor Drosselmeyer gives his niece Clara a nutcracker shaped like a toy soldier. That night Clara falls asleep in the salon and dreams that mice attack the nutcracker; in the battle that follows she strikes down the Mouse King, and Drosselmeyer turns the nutcracker into a prince who takes her to a land of snow. In the second act the Good Fairy welcomes them to a land of wonders where Spanish, Arabian, Chinese and Russian dolls dance, before Clara and the Prince dance their pas de deux and Clara wakes from her dream. The production credits list Mehmet Balkan for staging and choreography, with conductors Kandemir Artun Hoinic and Deniz Oliveira Erdinç. Tickets are sold through Biletinial, linked from the Devlet Opera ve Balesi website.

• Devlet Opera ve Balesi - Findikkiran production pageChecked 2026-11-11
• Ataturk Sanat Merkezi - official websiteChecked 2026-11-11
• Biletinial - Devlet Opera ve Balesi event calendarChecked 2026-11-11