Individual tickets are now available for the National Ballet of Canada’s 2024-25 season

Individual tickets for the National Ballet of Canada’s 2024/25 season are now available for purchase.

Guillaume Côté, Principal Dancer and Associate Choreographer, will retire after 26 years with the National Ballet. He will be celebrated throughout the year for his distinguished career and exceptional artistry. The season features four world premieres, two North American premieres and two Canadian premieres, showcasing innovative works by international choreographers as well as breathtaking classics. Tickets can be purchased by visiting national.ballet.ca.

The 2024-25 season opens this fall with a mixed program led by the Canadian premiere of Silent Screen, a spellbinding theatrical experience by choreographic duo Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, set to the music of Philip Glass. Silent Screen is presented alongside the Canadian premiere of Sir Fredrick Ashton’s Rhapsody, as part of Ashton Worldwide, an international festival celebrating Ashton on the 120th anniversary of his birth, and a special solo performance of Guillaume Côté’s Body of Work. This electric triple bill will be on stage from November 9 to 16, 2024.

Sir Peter Wright’s beloved romantic classic Giselle returns to the stage from November 20-24, 2024. This haunting story of love and forgiveness has captivated audiences for over 180 years since its first premiere in Paris in 1841.
December brings the family favorite and National Ballet holiday tradition, James Kudelka’s The Nutcracker, which runs from December 6 to 31, 2024.

The winter season opens with a mixed programme including the North American premiere of David Dawson’s The Four Seasons, a contemporary ballet in tune with the times to Max Richter’s extraordinary recomposition of Antonio Vivaldi’s music, followed by the world premiere of Morpheus’ Dream by German choreographer Marco Goecke, with a soundscape by pianist Keith Jarrett and the distinctive voice of Lady Gaga, and Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading, on stage from 26 February to 2 March 2025.

The National Ballet is delighted to return to Karen Kain’s Swan Lake from 8–22 March 2025. This performance invites audiences to re-immerse themselves in the creative journey presented in the 2023 documentary, Swan Song. Kain’s reimagining pays homage to Erik Bruhn’s version and closely follows the 1895 revival by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
This summer, principal dancer Guillaume Côté will bid farewell to the National Ballet, his creative home for the past 26 years, with a program dedicated to Canadian talent. Côté creates and performs a multidisciplinary solo, Grand Mirage, with longtime collaborator and filmmaker Ben Shirinian. In addition to his 2012 work Bolero, Côté shares this program with the company’s newest associate choreographer, Ethan Colangelo, and Toronto-born Jennifer Archibald, both of whom will create new works. Farewell: A Celebration of Guillaume Côté will be on stage from May 30 to June 5, 2025.

The 2024/25 season concludes with the North American premiere of Christian Spuck’s seductive Anna Karenina. This is the first creative partnership with one of Europe’s leading choreographers and features an original score by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Witold Lutoslawski. Anna Karenina will be on stage from June 13 to 21, 2025.

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