Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake returns this autumn with principal casting announced

Following this summer’s celebrations of 100 years of their Founding Director Laureate Sir Peter Wright, Birmingham Royal Ballet will this autumn revive his beloved and spectacular production of Swan Lake, created with Galina Samsova. One of the company’s most popular productions, it plays Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday 23 September to Saturday 3 October 2026 before transferring to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre from Wednesday 28 to Saturday 31 October 2026. Tickets are on sale now.

Principal casting has been announced, with Céline Gittens, Momoko Hirata, Yu Kurihara, Miki Mizutani, Beatrice Parma and Yaoqian Shang sharing the role of Odette/Odile, and Enrique Bejarano Vidal, Tzu-Chao Chou, Mathias Dingman, Yasiel Hodelín Bello, Mason King, Max Maslen and Lachlan Monaghan sharing the role of Prince Siegfried.

“In this year where we celebrate 100 years of the magnificent contributions of our Founding Director Laureate, Sir Peter Wright, we couldn’t not bring his cherished and spectacular production of Swan Lake back to the stage,” said Birmingham Royal Ballet Director Carlos Acosta. “Not only one of the world’s favourite ballets, this specific production has been beloved for decades and over generations, bringing many to ballet for the very first time. We look forward to being back on the stage in Birmingham and London this autumn with this unmissable show.”

In the ballet, Prince Siegfried is out hunting one night when he happens upon a flock of graceful swans. When one of them turns into a beautiful woman, the Prince is utterly smitten — but Odette explains that she has fallen under an evil spell cast by Baron von Rothbart, which keeps her in swan form from dawn to dusk. Can Siegfried’s love break the spell?

Swan Lake plays Birmingham Hippodrome from 23 September to 3 October 2026 and Sadler’s Wells Theatre from 28 to 31 October 2026, with tickets on sale now.