American Ballet Theatre Summer 2025
The venerable American Ballet Theatre celebrates its 85th birthday with six weeks of full-length ballets at the Met. The summer season begins and ends with the beloved Tchaikovsky bird calls of Swan Lake (June 10–14 and July 14–19) and also features the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale (July 1–5), adapted from Shakespeare's bittersweet play and set to an original score by Joby Talbot. Also on the schedule are Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works (June 17–20)—a 2015 triptych inspired by the Virginia Woolf novels Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves—and the time-honored classics Giselle (June 23–28) and Sylvia (July 8–12). The current roster of ABT principals comprises Joo Won Ahn, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Daniel Camargo, Misty Copeland, Herman Cornejo, Thomas Forster, Isaac Hernández, Catherine Hurlin, Chloe Misseldine, Gillian Murphy, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo, Christine Shevchenko, Cory Stearns, Devon Teuscher, Cassandra Trenary, James Whiteside and Roman Zhurbin.