NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation

Birmingham Royal Ballet The Sleeping Beauty／Cinderella
June, July 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet The Kabuki
June 2025 ＠ Opera Palace | NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO

Ballet Supreme The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet
August 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet Swan Lake - Mother's Tears
August 2025 ＠ Meguro Persimmon Hall, TOKYO

The Tokyo Ballet M
September 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Wiener Staatsoper
Le nozze di Figaro／Der Rosenkavalier
October 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet La Sylphide
November 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet Don Quixote
November 2025 ＠ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The 34th NBS Premium Ballet Series

18 Jun 2025	Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's Cinderella It is with regret that we announce that the guest artist William Bracewell, Principal with The Royal Ballet, has had to withdraw from the Company's Japan tour, due to injury. He will be replaced by the Company's Principal Mathias Dingman as Prince in Cinderella in the performances on Friday 27 and S...
9 Jun 2025	Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty(Tokyo) It is with regret that we announce that the guest artist Alina Cojocaru has had to withdraw from the role of Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, due to injury. She will be replaced by Elisa Badenes, Principal Dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet, in Tokyo performances on Friday 20 and Sunday 22 June...
6 Jun 2025	Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty(Sakai, Nagoya) It is with regret that we announce that Yasiel Hodelín Bello, Soloist of Birmingham Royal Ballet, has had to withdraw from the role of Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, due to injury. He will be replaced by Brandon Lawrence, Principal with the Ballett Zürich and former Principal with Birmingh...
13 May 2025	Cast Changes: The Australian Ballet's Don Quixote (31 May 2025) It is with regret that we announce that two Principal Artists of The Australian Ballet in the lead roles, Benedicte Bemet and Joseph Caley, have had to withdraw from the performance of Don Quixote on Saturday 31 May (matinée) due to injury. Benedicte Bemet will be replaced by Senior Artist Yuumi Yam...
3 Apr 2025	Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan Tour: Special Chamber Concert (October) We are delighted to announce that, during the Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan tour, we also present a Special Chamber Concert with three musicians of the Wiener Philharmoniker on Tuesday 7 October at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. It will be accompanied by a talk by Bogdan Roščić, Director of the Wiener Staatsope...
29 Mar 2025	The Australian Ballet: Pre-performance talk by Artistic Director David Hallberg and Sylvie Guillem (31 May 2025) We are pleased to announce that a pre-performance talk will be given, on Saturday 31 May from 17:50 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, by Artistic Director David Hallberg and the French legendary dancer Sylvie Guillem who coached The Australian Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote.It is free for all ticket ho...
4 Mar 2025	Principal Dan Tsukamoto was awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's 75th Art Encouragement Prize Huge congratulations to The Tokyo Ballet's Principal dancer Dan Tsukamoto who was presented with the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's 75th Art Encouragement Prize in Dance. He was awarded for his outstanding achievement in both classical and contemporary ballets, espe...
7 Feb 2025	The Tokyo Ballet: The Kabuki (June 2025) We are delighted to announce that The Tokyo Ballet revives, in June, The Kabuki, the first ballet that Maurice Béjart choreographed for the Company in 1986. Based on a famous Kabuki play titled Kanadehon Chushingura, it is a story about 47 samurai in the eighteenth century. According to Béjart's wis...
30 Jan 2025	Cast Change: The Tokyo Ballet's Casse-Noisette It is with regret that we announce that Guest Dancer Daniil Simkin has had to withdraw from the role of FÉLIX - le chat in Casse-Noisette, due to foot problems. He will be replaced by The Tokyo Ballet's Principal dancer Arata Miyagawa on Friday 7 and Sunday 9 February.We apologize to our valued audi...
19 Dec 2024	Details: Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan Tour (October 2025) We are pleased to announce the details of the Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan Tour that begins on Sunday 5 October with Le nozze di Figaro and ends on Sunday 26 October with Der Rosenkavalier at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Join us for the exceptional shows of the two of the most iconic productions in the ...

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Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's Cinderella

Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty(Tokyo)

Cast Change: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty(Sakai, Nagoya)

Cast Changes: The Australian Ballet's Don Quixote (31 May 2025)

Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan Tour: Special Chamber Concert (October)

The Australian Ballet: Pre-performance talk by Artistic Director David Hallberg and Sylvie Guillem (31 May 2025)

Principal Dan Tsukamoto was awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's 75th Art Encouragement Prize

The Tokyo Ballet: The Kabuki (June 2025)

Cast Change: The Tokyo Ballet's Casse-Noisette

Details: Wiener Staatsoper 2025 Japan Tour (October 2025)