♦ 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.
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 Seasons’ 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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