NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation

The Tokyo Ballet The Nutcracker
December 2021 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet Swan Lake
February 2022 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Stuttgart Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty／Onegin
March 2022 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The 32nd NBS Premium Ballet Series
From June 2022 to March 2023

The 10th NBS Opera Festival
From September 2020 to October 2021

14 Oct 2021	The Stuttgart Ballet Japan Tour 2022 The Stuttgart Ballet returns to Japan for the first time since 2018. They will bring two masterpieces of the Company: The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet by Márcia Haydée after Charles Perrault, and Onegin, a ballet by John Cranko based on the verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin. In the tour final perfo...
11 Aug 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Program Updates and Cast Changes as of 11 Aug. Please find below updates in the programs A and B to be performed at the 16th World Ballet (Friday 13 - Sunday 22 August). We regret to announce that Hugo Marchand has become unable to participate in Program A. It has become impossible for him to enter Japan before the Festival begins because ...
11 Aug 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Important notice to the audience members The safety and comfort of our audiences, participating artists, staff and all the people concerned is of the utmost importance to us. To host the 16th World Ballet Festival, we are and will be strictly following the COVID-19 preventive measures imposed by the regional and national governments as wel...
31 Jul 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Program Updates and Cast Changes We are pleased to announce below updates in the programs A and B to be performed at the 16th World Ballet (Friday 13 - Sunday 22 August). We also announce that it has become necessary to make some cast changes. Under the influence of emigration and immigration restrictions in each country im...
9 Jul 2021	Partial suspension of ticket sales under a state of emergency In line with the declaration of a fourth state of emergency by the Japanese government, the ticked sales of below performances will be suspended from Monday 12 July because the number of tickets sold already surpasses the 50% of the hall capacity. We will keep preparing for all the scheduled p...
30 Jun 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Cancellation of the Gala on Aug. 25 It is with great regret that we announce that the World Ballet Festival Gala scheduled on Wednesday 25 August 2021 has been cancelled. It has become necessary to close the 16th World Ballet Festival on Sunday 22 August due to several reasons. As the global COVID-19 situation changes every day...
1 Jun 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Gala We are pleased to announce that The World Ballet Festival Gala will be held on Wednesday 25 August, 14:00 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. The program will be announced in the latter half of June. Japan Performing Arts Foundation (NBS) Ticket Prices S=￥33,000 A=￥30,000 B=￥27,000 ...
1 Jun 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Artists and Programs We are delighted to announce that Ekaterina Krysanova with The Bolshoi Ballet and Vladimir Shklyarov with the Mariinsky Ballet will participate in the 16th World Ballet Festival to be held in Tokyo in August 2021. It will be their first appearance at the Festival.Iana Salenko has regretfully withdra...
24 Apr 2021	Postponed: The Tokyo Ballet, Don Quixote's Dream, Carmen / Spring and Fall The Tokyo Ballet's Don Quixote's Dream performances scheduled on 29 April and 1 May, and Carmen / Spring and Fall performance scheduled on 2 May are postponed as the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan will be closed in line with the state of emergency announced on 23 April 2021 by the Japanese government. T...
10 Mar 2021	Cancelled: Wiener Staatsoper Japan tour 2021 It is with great regret that we announce the Wiener Staatsoper Japan tour scheduled in October / November 2021 has been cancelled because of unpredictability of restrictions due to the current COVID-19 situation worldwide. Japan Performing Arts Foundation and the Wiener Staatsoper have made o...