Costume Designer

Set Designer

Experience the dazzling return of George Balanchine’s Jewels. This trio of ballets features glittering scenic and costume design by Jérôme Kaplan and a perfect assortment of quintessential Balanchine choreography. Emeralds evokes French elegance, Rubies brings the glamor and jazz of America, and Diamonds recalls the grandeur of Balanchine’s native St. Petersburg.

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Jewels

Seattle Center

Two Bournonville Ballets—A Celebration of Drama, Romance, and Joy.

La Ventana (“The Window”) and The Kermesse in Bruges are two vastly different ballets by August Bournonville, yet together they demonstrate his remarkable ability to portray drama, romance, comedy, and poetry.

La Ventana and The Kermesse in Bruges

Royal Danish Opera

Experience a captivating reimagining of a timeless love story with the Boston Ballet's production of "Roméo et Juliette." This fresh take on the Shakespearean classic is set to enchant audiences from May 29 to June 8, 2025, offering a unique perspective through the eyes of the remorseful Friar Lawrence. Choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, this version highlights the tragic tale with minimalistic sets that amplify the dancers' emotions, allowing the audience to deeply connect with the characters' experiences of pride, fear, excitement, and impulsiveness.

The contemporary choreography, praised for incorporating elements of cinematography, flows freely, enabling the dancers to fully embody the emotions of the characters. The performance is further elevated by the Boston Ballet Orchestra under Mischa Santora, featuring the full Sergei Prokofiev score, which has been refined to enhance balletic movement.

This production, which first premiered on December 23, 1996, with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, has been brought to life thanks to a generous gift from the Stephens Naphtal Foundation. Performances will be held at the Citizens Opera House, with a schedule that includes evening shows at 7:30 pm and matinees at 1:30 pm, ensuring multiple opportunities to witness this breathtaking ballet.

For those interested in attending, it's important to note that the music in some ballets may be loud depending on seating and personal comfort levels. Audience members are encouraged to plan accordingly and check out the FAQs for important information about attending performances.

Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the passion, turmoil, and grace of "Roméo et Juliette," a ballet that promises to be a memorable experience for all who attend.

Roméo et Juliette

Boston Ballet School

The original star-crossed lovers are back on the McCaw Hall stage!
Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette distills the Shakespearean tragedy to its most moving, timeless core. Watch as young love blooms, grows, and overwhelms in this magnetic refresh of the classic story. Featuring emotional performances by PNB Company dancers and Prokofiev’s powerful score masterfully rendered by the PNB Orchestra, you won’t want to miss this spring offering.

Hollywood in the 1920s. A new, exotic and opulent film is being produced in the dream factory. The subject: La Bayadère - the story of the beautiful temple dancer, which was celebrated at its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1877, is to find its way onto the cinema screens of the world. Everyone is working with great enthusiasm to ensure the success of the project, which is believed to be certain. The aim is to help the tragically beautiful story, set in ancient India, achieve international brilliance in the cinemas of the 1920s.

La Bayadère

Opernhaus Dortmund

The story of The Sleeping Beauty, over 300 years old, is anything but dormant. It thrives vibrantly, and in Christopher Wheeldon's ballet version, the fairytale element is amplified to its fullest.

The Sleeping Beauty

Copenhagen Opera House

A sun-drenched 'feel good' ballet! This is how you can easily characterize Alexei Ratmansky's internationally acclaimed Don Quixote . The Russian American top choreographer created this new version of the famous ballet classic for the National Ballet in 2010, resulting in a production that radiates pleasure, positive energy and the Spanish temperament.

Don Quixote

National Opera & Ballet

A sparkling end to the ballet season: that is what the National Ballet Academy guarantees again this year, with its end-of-year production Dansers van Morgen.  Accompanied live by the Ballet Orchestra, all pupils and students of the school present themselves in an extremely diverse and energetic program. And especially because of the tenth anniversary of the Junior Company of the National Ballet, the program will be expanded this year with a festive and vibrant performance by this youth ensemble .

Dancers of Tomorrow 2024

Not only is he the most important classical ballet choreographer of our time, St. Petersburg-born Alexei Ratmansky is also one of the biggest critics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After rehearsing his Giselle with the United Ukrainian Ballet, which was hastily founded in The Hague (2022), the National Ballet now presents two of his most successful and imaginative ballets in Stravinsky Fairytales : his dazzling Firebird and the European premiere of the poetic The Fairy's Kiss . Both set to the masterful music of Igor Stravinsky 

Stravinsky Fairy Tales

Atlanta Ballet to premiere in the U.S. award-winning choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s original ballet that explores the complex life of one of the 20th century’s most intriguing fashion icons.

Acclaimed Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s original full-length narrative ballet Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon will delve into the complex life of one of the 20th century’s most intriguing iconoclasts. The woman who launched a global fashion empire, Coco Chanel redefined the world of fashion and more than a century later her legacy continues. That legacy is defined in part by Chanel's brilliant designs, shrewd business acumen, and glamorous lifestyle; it is also defined by immorality and opportunism in her rise to the top.

Coco Chanel

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Ballet’s preeminent ghost story returns to the PNB stage! Follow our protagonist as she navigates a sisterhood of spectral maidens, the Wilis, and comes to terms with her own untimely death. Giselle’s classic choreography embodies the vengeance, grief, and heartbreak of love gone wrong. Let Jérôme Kaplan’s sumptuous costumes and sets transport you to a romantic world, from the first notes of Adolphe Adam’s overture to the last majestic echo of the finale.

Costume Designer, Set Designer

Jérôme Kaplan

Events

Past events

Sep 26 - Oct 5, 2025

Jewels · McCaw Hall

Aug 30 - Sep 13, 2025

La Ventana and The Kermesse in Bruges · Royal Danish Opera

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