♦ 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 2024-2025 Season
The Boston Ballet 2024-2025 Season at Citizens Opera House features two Beantown premieres – Crystal Pite’s The Seasons’ Canon and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette – as well as a world premiere by Principal Dancer Lia Cirio who celebrates her 20th year with Boston Ballet.
The Season’s Canon, set to Max Richter’s rendition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, draws on human emotion from Pite’s own life experiences and appears on the opening Fall Experience 2024 program along with Sabrina Matthews’ Ein von Viel, an intimate dance between two artists and a solo pianist set to Bach’s Goldberg Variations, as well as Jorma Elo‘s Plan B and
Maillot’s version of the classic Romeo and Juliet story features contemporary choreography with elements of cinematography that flows freely to allow the dancers to embody the full emotion of the characters. Prokofiev’s score will be played by the Boston Ballet Orchestra.
The Winter Experience 2025 program showcases George Balanchine‘s Mozartiana and Symphony in Three Movements, both which premiered at festivals honoring the ballets’ composers; the 1981 Tchaikovsky Festival and the 1972 Stravinsky Festival, respectively. Also on the program are Claudia Schreier’s Slipstream, an innovative, unusual, and captivating ballet commissioned in 2022 for Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER program, and Leonid Yakobson’s Vestris is a solo originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1969 and performed by the best male dancers in history.
Two Jiří Kylián works – 27’52” and Petite Mort – join Nissinen’s reimagined Raymonda featuring rechoreographed sections by Florence Clerc, Alla Nikitina, and the Artistic Director himself in the Spring Experience 2025 program.
Rounding out the season’s programming are Artistic Director Mikko Nissisnen’s classical The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
“Our upcoming season is a bold collection of ballets that curate the best of the past and pave the way for the artists of the future.
This programming is a glowing example of Boston Ballet’s versatility and expertise in performing diverse and challenging repertoire. Audiences will experience dance like never before with works by world-renowned choreographers, stunning classical ballets, and groundbreaking neoclassical and contemporary works.”
Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet
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