On May 8, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf premiered John Neumeier's A Streetcar Named Desire — a ballet by one of the most legendary choreographers of our time. It was with this very production that the Hamburg Ballet opened its 50th and final season under Neumeier in 2023. And though A Streetcar Named Desire enjoys less popularity with companies than, say, The Lady of the Camellias — currently running in Munich and Paris this season alone — it is precisely this ball

Ballet Director Laurent Hilaire concluded Ballet Festival Week 2026 with an overall attendance of 100 per cent. The opening event was the premiere of the new triple bill Common Ground on Saturday, 28 March 2026, in which choreographers Alexander Ekman and Johan Inger presented their work to the Bavarian State Ballet audience in Munich for the first time. Common Ground refers to a shared basis of human coexistence, and thus the audience can expect a performance that conveys an

On April 6, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden hosted the final performance of this season’s premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera. The production brought together renowned performers, such as Anna Netrebko, Boris Pinkhasovich, and Charles Castronovo.

It is striking how fates and meanings echo across time. After his legendary defection from the USSR in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev was declared a traitor to the Motherland and sentenced in absentia to imprisonment. And now, decades later, in modern Russia, a ballet about him – a man who became a symbol of freedom in the art world - is stigmatized and pushed aside.

When a ballet classic is reborn, it carries within that mixture of nostalgia, expectation and electric tension that only the truly great works can evoke. John Neumeier’s Nutcracker, back in the repertoire of the Bavarian State Ballet since 2 November 2025, is such a work.

A new double-bill from the Staatsballett Berlin "Minus 16 / Saaba" presents 2 contemporary pieces from Israeli-born choreographers: Sharon E

The premiere of "Messa da Requiem" by Christian Spuck which came as one of the first collaborations between the new Artistic Director of the

The choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui returned to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona with the duo of choreographies "Faun/Noetic" , both performed by the Grand Ballet de Genéve. In the gaze of the Belgian choreographer and dancer, the symbiosis between cultures and movements is almost always accompanied by a philosophical line, resulting in a communicative dance that transcends diversity of bodies, perceptions, and contexts. Through an artistic ideology formed by collec

In October, a dance performance entitled "Die Grauzone der Toleranz" ("The Grey Zone of Tolerance") premiered at the Delphi Theatre. Choreog

"Pelléas et Mélisande", the only completed opera by Claude Debussy, is considered to be an "opera without singing", though, to my ear, there