Media Release
Single Tickets Now Available for The National Ballet of Canada’s 2024/25 Season
TORONTO, ON, September 24, 2024 – Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, shared today that single tickets for The National Ballet of Canada’s 2024/25 season are now available for purchase.
Principal Dancer and Choreographic Associate Guillaume Côté, set to retire after 26 years with the National Ballet, will be celebrated for his brilliant career and exceptional artistry throughout the year. The season includes four world premieres, two North American premieres, two Canadian premieres and features innovative work by international choreographic voices as well as breathtaking classics. Tickets can be purchased by visiting national.ballet.ca.
The 2024/25 season opens this fall with a mixed programme led by the Canadian premiere of Silent Screen, a mesmerizing theatrical experience from 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, part of Ashton Worldwide, an international festival celebrating Ashton on the 120th anniversary of his birth, and a special solo performance of Body of Work by Guillaume Côté. This electric triple bill is onstage November 9 – 16, 2024.
Giselle, the beloved Romantic classic by Sir Peter Wright, returns to the stage November 20 – 24, 2024. This haunting story of love and forgiveness has captivated audiences for over 180 years since it first premiered in Paris in 1841.
December brings the family favourite and the National Ballet’s holiday tradition, The Nutcracker by James Kudelka which runs December 6 – 31, 2024.
The Winter Season begins with a mixed programme featuring the North American premiere of David Dawson’s The Four Seasons, a zeitgeist contemporary ballet set to Max Richter’s extraordinary re-composition of Antonio Vivaldi’s music, followed by the world premiere of Morpheus’ Dream by German choreographer Marco Goecke, featuring a soundscape by pianist Keith Jarrett and distinctive vocals of Lady Gaga, and Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading, onstage February 26 – March 2, 2025.
The National Ballet is thrilled to return to Karen Kain’s Swan Lake March 8 – 22, 2025. This performance invites audiences to dive back inside the creative journey featured in the 2023 documentary, Swan Song. Kain’s reimagination honours Erik Bruhn’s version and holds closely to the 1895 revival by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
In the Summer Season, Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will bid adieu to the National Ballet, his creative home for the past 26 years, with a programme devoted to Canadian talent. Côté creates and performs a multidisciplinary solo, Grand Mirage, with long-time collaborator, filmmaker Ben Shirinian. In addition to his 2012 work Bolero, Côté shares this programme with the company’s newest Choreographic Associate, Ethan Colangelo and Toronto-born Jennifer Archibald who will both create new works. Adieu: A Celebration of Guillaume Côté is onstage May 30 – June 5, 2025.
The 2024/25 season concludes with the North American premiere of Christian Spuck’s alluring Anna Karenina. This marks the first creative partnership with one of Europe’s foremost choreographers and introduces a curated score with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Witold Lutoslawski. Anna Karenina is onstage June 13 – 21, 2025.
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Season Sponsor: BMO Financial Group
Desjardins presents Giselle.
iA Financial Group The Nutcracker.
Nicola Wealth presents Swan Lake.
Silent Screen is generously supported by The Producers’ Circle (2025).
Lead philanthropic support for Rhapsody is provided by the Isobel Allen New Creations Fund.
Giselle was produced as a memorial to the late William P. Walker and was made possible through the courtesy of many generous friends of the National Ballet.
The Nutcracker is made possible by generous financial support from production underwriters Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lawrence and Ann Heisey and an anonymous friend of the National Ballet.
The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with Canada's National Ballet School in the production of The Nutcracker.
The Four Seasons is a gift from The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada.
The National Ballet also acknowledges support for The Four Seasons provided by The Anna McCowan-Johnson New Creations Fund and The Penelope Reed Doob Fund for New Creations.
Lead philanthropic support for Morpheus’ Dream is provided by The Gail Hutchison Fund.
The Leaves Are Fading is a gift from The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada.
Lead philanthropic support for Swan Lake is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund, with generous underwriting from Richard M. Ivey, C.C., an anonymous friend of the National Ballet, Susan Scace & Arthur Scace, C.M., K.C., Pamela and Paul Austin and The P. Austin Family Foundation, The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Nancy Pencer, Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C., Anne-Marie Canning, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Tim & Frances Price, The Volunteer Committee of The National Ballet of Canada and Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M. Additional support provided by The Producers’ Circle (2022).
Lead philanthropic support for Anna Karenina is provided by Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney and the Walter Carsen New Creations Fund with additional support provided by The Producers’ Circle.
The Producers’ Circle (2025): John & Claudine Bailey, Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, Jerry Lozinski, O.C. & Joan Lozinski, O.C., The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation and Alexander Younger & Sarah Richardson.
Harrison James and Jurgita Dronina with Artists of the Ballet in Swan Lake. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts; the Ontario Arts Council; the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council; the Government of Canada – Department of Canadian Heritage with the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage; and the Government of Ontario with the Honourable Stan Cho, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Gaming and Minister of Sport.
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