The Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) announced its 2025-2026 season on 30th January 2025.
The new season includes Black Sabbath – The Ballet, Don Quixote, 20th-Century Masterpieces, and The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall.
Additionally, BRB hosts Sir Peter Wright Centenary on 18th February 2026 to celebrate the company founder’s 100th year. The programme includes highlights of his work and Kurt Jooss's The Green Table. The company will perform it for the first time since the early 1990s when Wright himself brought it into the repertory.
“Sir Peter started his career in Ballet Jooss and The Green Table is a work he greatly admires,” BRB says on its website.
The Green Table will be performed as a part of the 20th-Century Masterpieces triple bill.
Personal note: I watched The Green Table (De Groene Tafel) with the Dutch National Ballet about two years ago. I was shell shocked I had to take a moment to recover afterwards. Highly recommend.
The Guardian newspaper published an interview with BRB Artistic Director Carlos Acosta a week after the new season announcement.
He talked about the general precariousness after the Birmingham City Council cut its art budget entirely last year although BRB had the best Nutcracker season. He also said that the next season would be the first full season without late CEO Caroline Miller, who passed away before Christmas last year, and that he still wanted to be the driving force.