♦ Location: Boston, Massachussets – United States
♦ Artistic Director: Mikko Nissinen
♦ Orchestra: Boston Ballet Orchestra
♦ Affiliated School: Boston Ballet School
♦ Founded in 1963 by Virginia Williams
Boston Ballet 2025-2026 Season
Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the Boston Ballet 2025-2026 season at Citizens Opera House featuring several company premieres, a world premiere, and the return of fan favorites.
“I am thrilled for our audiences to experience our upcoming season, offering grand and timeless classics, new-to-Boston works, and ballets by today’s top and most in-demand choreographers. Boston Ballet has some of the more skilled and versatile dancers in the world who will shine in this dynamic lineup of repertoire.”
Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet
After a ten-year hiatus, George Balanchine‘s iconic Jewels celebrating the French, American, and Russian artistic styles represented by Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds, respectively, will be performed in front of Boston audiences again.
The annual month-long run of Nissinen’s The Nutcracker closes the year, with the new one beginning with Winter Experience 2026. Having recently seen its Boston debut in Fall of 2024, Crystal Pite’s 54-dancer-cast The Seasons’ Canon pairs with Jorma Elo’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) on this double bill. The latter, last seen in Boston in 2009, is the choreographer’s interpretation of Vaslav Nijinsky‘s original ballet (set to Stravinsky’s unmistakable score) tailored to the company dancers of today.
A week later, for the first time in its 62-year history, Boston Ballet will showcase Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Dream. This one-act telling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set to music by Felix Mendelssohn is one of the choreographer’s most celebrated and performed ballets. A world premiere by My’Kal Stromile marks the former Boston Ballet dancer’s second piece for the company and will “explore themes of governance, restriction, and possibility, where movement becomes a negotiation and redefinition of boundaries.”
Spring Experience 2026 is a triple-bill – Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman, and Lia Cirio’s After – the first two works company premieres. Although set to the distinct music of Frédéric Chopin, Thom Willems, and Lera Auerbach, respectively, the ballets are connected by the theme of human interaction and connection.
The season closes with the epitomic fairy tale ballet, Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. With additional choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, this production features sets and costumes by Emmy Award-winning designer David Walker.
Source: Boston Ballet
Boston Ballet Upcoming Performances
Boston Ballet: Jewels
Boston Ballet: The Nutcracker
Boston Ballet: Winter Experience 2026
Boston Ballet: The Dream
Boston Ballet: Spring Experience 2026
Boston Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
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