Philadelphia Ballet 2025-2026 Season, Shows, Reviews

byBallet Herald News Desk

June 22, 2021 - Updated on May 12, 2025

Philadelphia Ballet

♦ Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – United States

♦ Artistic Director: Angel Corella

♦ Orchestra: Philadelphia Ballet Orchestra

♦ Affiliated School: School of Philadelphia Ballet

♦ Founded in 1963 as Pennsylvania by Barbara Weisberger. Name changed to Philadelphia Ballet in 2021.

♦ Official Website of Philadelphia Ballet

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Philadelphia Ballet 2025-2026 Season

Artistic Director Angel Corella has announced the Philadelphia Ballet 2025-2026 season, one that features a world premiere by Resident Choreographer Juliano Nunes as well as fan-favorite story ballets.

“This season offers an incredible variety of artistic storytelling, from heart-stopping drama to sweeping romance. Our dancers will push their artistry and technique to new heights, whether performing the intensity of Carmen, the psychological complexity of Fall River Legend, or the grandeur of The Merry Widow.

We are also honored to present the world premiere of Valley of Death by our resident choreographer Juliano Nunes, an extraordinary talent whose vision will also bring a bold new energy to Romeo and Juliet.

This season truly represents the depth and dynamism of Philadelphia Ballet.”

– Angel Corella, Artistic Director of Philadephia Ballet

The season opens with the return of Corella’s Carmen, inspired by Georges Bizet’s opera, and set to a a musical arrangement created by Beatrice Jona Affron, Corella, Martha Koeneman and Miranda Scripp.

The next weekend, the company will premiere Juliano Nunes’ new work, set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sergei Rachmaninoff, which appears on the aptly titled Evening of Horror double-bill alongside Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend.

Philadelphia Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (which was performed at The Kennedy Center in 2024) takes its perennial place in the season lineup to close 2025.

Spring 2026 sees two full-length ballets: Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow – a Philadelphia debut – which is based on the Franz Lehár’s operetta and Nunes’ adaptation of the tragic Romeo and Juliet set to Prokofiev’s heart-wrenching score.

Source: Philadelphia Ballet