CASTING
NUTCRACKER
COMPOSER
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
CHOREOGRAPHER
Helgi Tomasson
Michael Yeargan is the resident set designer and a professor of stage design at Yale School of Drama. Yeargan's theater work includes the Broadway productions of Oslo, The King and I, South Pacific, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Light in the Piazza (2005 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical); numerous off-Broadway productions; the New York Shakespeare Festival; the Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival; and productions across the U.S. and in London's West End. Yeargan's opera credits are extensive; highlights include A Streetcar Named Desire and Dead Man Walking (San Francisco Opera); The Great Gatsby (the Metropolitan Opera); Cold Sassy Tree (Houston Grand Opera); and Central Park (Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera), among others.
Martin Pakledinaz (1953–2012) was a prolific costume and scenic designer for theater, dance, opera, and film. A graduate of Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, he collaborated frequently with SF Ballet, designed for choreographers Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, and Christopher Wheeldon. Pakledinaz also frequently collaborated with Peter Sellars, and designed works for the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Salzburg, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company. He won two Tony Awards (Kiss Me, Kate and Thoroughly Modern Millie) and was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
James F. Ingalls’ designs for SF Ballet include Don Quixote, Onegin, Sylvia, Nutcracker, Helgi Tomasson’s Silver Ladders, the 2008 New Works Festival, and the 2018 Unbound Festival. His work is seen in the repertories of American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Boston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, The National Ballet of Canada, Norwegian National Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Paul Taylor American Modern Dance. Recent designs include Twyla Now (New York City Center), Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House (Charlotte Ballet), and Thomas Kilroy’s The Seagull (after Chekov) for Druid Theatre Company/Galway. Ingalls’ work in opera and theater with director Peter Sellars spans 40 years. He often collaborates with The Wooden Floor dancers in Santa Ana, California.
Head of Yale School of Drama's projection design concentration, Wendall K. Harrington's Broadway and off-Broadway designs include The Who's Tommy, All the Way, Annie, Driving Miss Daisy, Grey Gardens, Company, The Heidi Chronicles, Ragtime, Hapgood, Angels in America, and Merrily We Roll Along. Opera designs include Werther (the Metropolitan Opera); Julie Taymor's The Magic Flute; A View from the Bridge (Chicago Lyric); Die Gezeichneten (LA Opera); The Photographer (Brooklyn Academy of Music); and The Grapes of Wrath and Rusalka (Minnesota Opera). For ballet, she has designed Wartime Elegy, Pictures at an Exhibition, Cinderella, The Firebird, The Fairy's Kiss, and Anna Karenina for Alexei Ratmansky; Ballet Mechanique for Doug Varone; Othello (American Ballet Theatre); Don Quixote (the Joffrey Ballet); Sylvia (Houston Ballet); and The Nutcracker (Miami City Ballet). She is the recipient of the American Theatre Wing Award, Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Projections, USITT Education Award, and Lifetime Recognition from the Knights of Illumination.
*CASTING SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha De Sola
Grand Pas de Deux: Nikisha Fogo and Aaron Robison
Conductor: Brad Hogarth
Queen and King of the Snow: Jihyun Choi and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha Mukhamedov
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Isabella DeVivo and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Wona Park
Grand Pas de Deux: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Conductor: Brad Hogarth
Queen and King of the Snow: Julia Rowe and Simone Pompignoli
Sugar Plum Fairy: Norika Matsuyama
Grand Pas de Deux: Katherine Barkman and Esteban Hernández
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Sasha Mukhamedov and Henry Sidford
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jasmine Jimison
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Thamires Chuvas and Steven Morse
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jennifer Stahl
Grand Pas de Deux: Wona Park and Wei Wang
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Sugar Plum Fairy: Nikisha Fogo
Grand Pas de Deux: Sasha De Sola and Isaac Hernández
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Norika Matsuyama and Joshua Jack Price
Sugar Plum Fairy: Katherine Barkman
Grand Pas de Deux: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Conductor: Brad Hogarth
Queen and King of the Snow: Sasha Mukhamedov and Henry Sidford
Sugar Plum Fairy: Isabella DeVivo
Grand Pas de Deux: Julia Rowe and Cavan Conley
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Norika Matsuyama and Joshua Jack Price
Sugar Plum Fairy: Carmela Mayo
Grand Pas de Deux: Julia Rowe and Cavan Conley
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Queen and King of the Snow: Isabella DeVivo and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jennifer Stahl
Grand Pas de Deux: Sasha De Sola and Isaac Hernández
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Sasha Mukhamedov and Henry Sidford
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jasmine Jimison
Grand Pas de Deux: Nikisha Fogo and Aaron Robison
Conductor: David LaMarche
Queen and King of the Snow: Julia Rowe and Simone Pompignoli
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha De Sola
Grand Pas de Deux: Katherine Barkman and Esteban Hernández
Conductor: David LaMarche
Queen and King of the Snow: Jihyun Choi and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Carmela Mayo
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Sasha Mukhamedov and Henry Sidford
Sugar Plum Fairy: Wona Park
Grand Pas de Deux: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Norika Matsuyama and Joshua Jack Price
Sugar Plum Fairy: Thamires Chuvas
Grand Pas de Deux: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Julia Rowe and Simone Pompignoli
Sugar Plum Fairy: Norika Matsuyama
Grand Pas de Deux: Nikisha Fogo and Aaron Robison
Conductor: David LaMarche
Queen and King of the Snow: Thamires Chuvas and Steven Morse
Sugar Plum Fairy: Isabella DeVivo
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: David LaMarche
Queen and King of the Snow: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha Mukhamedov
Grand Pas de Deux: Wona Park and Wei Wang
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Isabella DeVivo and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jennifer Stahl
Grand Pas de Deux: Sasha De Sola and Isaac Hernández
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Queen and King of the Snow: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Sugar Plum Fairy: Katherine Barkman
Grand Pas de Deux: Nikisha Fogo and Aaron Robison
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Queen and King of the Snow: Thamires Chuvas and Steven Morse
Sugar Plum Fairy: Wona Park
Grand Pas de Deux: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Conductor: Ming Luke
Queen and King of the Snow: Sasha Mukhamedov and Henry Sidford
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha De Sola
Grand Pas de Deux: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Jihyun Choi and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Thamires Chuvas
Grand Pas de Deux: Katherine Barkman and Esteban Hernández
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Julia Rowe and Simone Pompignoli
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jennifer Stahl
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: Ming Luke
Queen and King of the Snow: Isabella DeVivo and Nathaniel Remez
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jasmine Jimison
Grand Pas de Deux: Wona Park and Wei Wang
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Queen and King of the Snow: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Sugar Plum Fairy: Katherine Barkman
Grand Pas de Deux: Sasha De Sola and Isaac Hernández
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Queen and King of the Snow: Norika Matsuyama and Joshua Jack Price
Sugar Plum Fairy: Jennifer Stahl
Grand Pas de Deux: Nikisha Fogo and Aaron Robison
Conductor: Ming Luke
Queen and King of the Snow: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang
Sugar Plum Fairy: Sasha Mukhamedov
Grand Pas de Deux: Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh
Conductor: Martin West
Queen and King of the Snow: Thamires Chuvas and Steven Morse
Sugar Plum Fairy: Isabella DeVivo
Grand Pas de Deux: Katherine Barkman and Esteban Hernández
Conductor: Ming Luke
Queen and King of the Snow: Frances Chung and Cavan Conley
Sugar Plum Fairy: Nikisha Fogo
Grand Pas de Deux: Wona Park and Wei Wang