Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring “The Nutcracker” & More

Candlelight Concerts

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Des Moines. Get your tickets now to discover music inspired by the winter and holiday spirit at World Food Prize Hall of Laureates under the gentle glow of candlelight.

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General Info

• Venue: World Food Prize Hall of Laureates
• 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: 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
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Tentative Program

• 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
• 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
• The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 RV 297: Winter – Vivaldi

Performers

Listeso String Quartet

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