The season also includes revivals of six full-length ballets: Ninette de Valois' version of Copp_lia, Monica Mason and Christopher Newton's new staging of The Sleeping Beauty (which debuts at the end of the current season), Peter Wright's The Nutcracker, Anthony Dowell's Swan Lake, John Cranko's Onegin, and Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling.
The season opens on October 5 with a program of works by Balanchine, Glen Tetley, and Jir‹ Kyl‹an, conducted by Antonio Pappano, the music director of the Royal Opera. Other highlights include a new staging of Bournonville's Napoli Divertissements by Royal Ballet principal dancer Johan Kobborg.