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© Den Kongelige Opera
Ballet de Luxe
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 May 2026 | ||||||
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Expected duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes incl. 2 intervals
A ballet gala featuring Etudes and selected works byBournonville and Petipas.
This season, Ballet de Luxe showcases three of Bournonville's most famous divertissements, two grand classical pas de deux, innovative dance and one of Danish ballet's most iconic works.
With a ticket to this year's Ballet de Luxe, the audience will traverse ballet history in three acts: Bournonville, pas de deux and concluding with Etudes.
The first act highlights excerpts from works by the founder of Danish ballet, August Bournonville: the pas de trois from the vaudeville ballet The Guards of Amager, the famous pas de deux from The Flower Festival in Genzano and a divertissement from La Sylphide.
The second act opens with the virtuoso showpiece Venetian Carnival from Marius Petipa's ballet Satanella, followed by an entirely new work by Nikolaj Hübbe for two of the company's female dancers. This act concludes with the Bluebird pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon's The Sleeping Beauty, also featured this season.
The grand finale is performed with Harald Lander's masterpiece Etudes, a declaration of love to dance in its purest form. It is structured around a classical ballet class, starting with the five positions and culminating in a soaring finale. Etudes is a timeless demonstration of the beauty at the heart of ballet.
Program and cast
The Hunters on Amager – pas de trois
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Vilhelm C. Holm
The Flower Festival in Genzano – pas de deux
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Holger Simon Paulli
La Sylphide – divertissement
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Herman Severin Løvenskiold
Satanella – pas de deux
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Césare Pugni
New Work
Choreography: Nikolaj Hübbe
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
The Sleeping Beauty – pas de deux
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Etudes
Choreography: Harald Lander
Music: Knudåge Riisager
Cast - Subject to change
Conductor: Damian Iorio
The Royal Danish Theatre Old Stage
The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: Det Kongelige Teater) is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The theatre was founded in 1748, first serving as the theatre of the king, and then as the theatre of the country. The theatre presents opera, the Royal Danish Ballet, classical music concerts (by the Royal Danish Orchestra, which dates back to 1448), pop stars, and drama in several locations.
The Royal Danish Theatre organization is under the control of the Danish Ministry of Culture, and its objectives are to ensure the staging of outstanding performances that do justice to the various stages which it controls.
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