| 16 Jul 2025 |
Program and Artist Updates: Ballet Supreme (August 2025)
Please see the updated programs here for Ballet Supreme ― All-star gala with dancers from The Royal Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet ― to be held with 9 performances, from Friday 1 to Monday 11 August at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that Mathias Heymann an... |
| 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... |
