Stuttgart Ballet announces 2025-2026 season

The Stuttgart Ballet announced its 2025-2026 season programmes on 13th May 2025.

The German company's new season opens in October with Anna Karenina, John Neumeier's full-length modern take on Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel. Other full-length balles to be performed in the season are The Nutcracker by Edward Clug, Sleeping Beauty by Marcia Haydée, Mayerling by Kenneth MacMillan and Onegin by John Cranko.

The Interaction multimedia triple bill features dance film Untamed, Oh Dear by company soloist Fabio Adorisio and solo work Soul Threads by company Principal and Stuttgart native Friedemann Vogel (one of the world's finest finest finest dancers). Adorisio is revising Oh Dear, which he initially created in 2024 to celebrate the centenary of Franz Kafka's death (the company's website says "birthday" but Kafka was born in 1883 and died in 1924). Vogel's Soul Threads premiered at Kleist Forum Frankfurt also last year and it will make a Stuttgart premiere.

The NOVITZKY/DAWSON double bill also revives 2024 works by Roman Novitzky, The Stuttgart Ballet’s Artist in Residence, and David Dawson, The Place of Choice and Symphony No. 2 “Under the Trees' Voices”, respectively.

The Blinks of an Eye double bill features Stuttgart premieres of Shut Eye by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot and Within the Golden Hour by Christopher Wheeldon, as well as the world premiere of N.N. by company soloist Vittoria Girelli.

Tribute to Tetley is a triple bill dedicated to Glen Tetley, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2026, featuring his Voluntaries, Ricercare and Le Sacre du Printemps.

For more information including The John Cranko Ballet School performances, click here.

Here is the trailer of Dawson's Symphony No. 2.