American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Principal Gillian Murphy will retire in July 2025, the company announced on 9the December.
Gillian Murphy will take her final bow in the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake on Friday, 18th July 2025, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Murphy joined ABT in 1996 as a member of corps ballet and was promoted Principal Dancer in 2002. She is ABT’s longest-standing current dancer. Read more about her amazing 29-year career, click here.
Congratulations Gillian! I am one of the lucky person who watched her black swan in a gala in Tokyo many moons ago. I was blown away by her powerful fouettés. And her husband Ethan Stiefel as Conrad in a separate production of ABT’s Le Corsaire, with Angel Corella as Ali.
Here is the link for ABT’s summer season.
