2024-2025 Season

We hope you will join us
for our 2024-2025 Season!

WELCOME TO OUR

2024-2025 season

Our upcoming 27th season programming aims to strike a balance between works that continue to intrigue our audience while challenging our dancers to enhance their craft through “Movement that Means.”

Throughout time, it’s the stories that are told that unite us. Stories are shared with one another to identify with the spectrum of the human experience. Dance enhances storytelling, and this upcoming season will showcase how movement speaks a narrative.

The intent of these offerings is to encourage our audience to consider the higher meaning of the movement that is being expressed as Carolina Ballet’s dancers take you deeper into the exploration of life’s joys and complexities.

Season tickets are currently on sale! Packages start as low as $75 per person.
Call the Carolina Ballet Box Office for more information at 919-719-0900.

DISCOVER OUR

2024-2025 SEASON

Scotch Symphony & Creatures of Prometheus

September 12-29, 2024
Fletcher Opera Theater

In September, step into the mystical Scottish Highlands with George Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, a tribute to the era of Romantic Ballet. Paired with this movement through time, Ted Seymour’s
The Creatures of Prometheus highlights the beauty of the arts as a foundation for a peaceful and just society. Beethoven’s onlycomposition for ballet is an allegory revealing the ideals of the Enlightenment.

jekyll & Hyde

October 17-November 3, 2024
Fletcher Opera Theater

Find the courage to face your dark side in the intriguing story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a world premiere ballet featuring a
brand-new composition by Shinji Eshima. Explore the shadowy depths of human nature through the haunting duality of the civilized Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde.

Carmina Burana

November 21-24, 2024
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

Embrace the complexities of the human experience with Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Carmina Burana. Follow the Wall Street story of a working-class man whose life transforms after a lottery win. This adaptation brings a contemporary twist to Carl Orff’s rhythmic and roaring music.

Included in this program is Duo Concertant by George Balanchine.

The Nutcracker

December 12-24, 2024
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

This holiday season, rediscover the wonder with Carolina Ballet’s enchanting celebration of The Nutcracker.
Our most-attended production ever, this beautiful ballet marries the charm of the original with fresh choreography,
vibrant sets, and stunning costumes.

February 6-23, 2025
Fletcher Opera Theater

Bolero

The Spring Season opens with a playful and unique interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro”, choreographed by the imaginative Lynne Taylor-Corbett. A “perfect” couple prepares for a “perfect” day at the beach.

“The elements conspire against them to ruin their day,” Taylor-Corbett explains. “It’s just a pure, unadulterated fantasy.”

Included in this program is a new ballet from Amy Hall Garner.

March 13-30, 2025
Fletcher Opera Theater

Alice in wonderland

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – The White Queen, speaking to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Welcome the impossible – go down the rabbit hole with Alice as she travels through Wonderland. Meet the enigmatic Mad Hatter and the formidable Queen of Hearts. Guest choreographer Gianna Reisen returns for a world premiere of Alice in Wonderland with set design by artist Rebecca Rebouché.

Included in this program is Jerome Robbins’ Fanfare.

Tchaikovsky piano concerto

April 24-27, 2025
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

In a reflective homage to classical ballet, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto unfolds from a tone of gentle introspection to a triumphant crescendo, showcasing the emotional resonance of the music.

“It harkens back to the origins of classical ballet that were whimsical, fantastical and most of all, grand.”

Also included in this program is George Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto. Classical music enthusiasts will delight in an evening of concertos.

May 15-18, 2025
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

swan lake

Rekindle your passion for Swan Lake. This season’s production brings Swan Lake back to its roots, inspired by Marius Petipa’s original 1895 version and Tchaikovsky’s resonant score. The story, revolving around the tragic romance of Prince Siegfried and the swan princess Odette, reveals the universal dialogue between light and darkness, love and deception.