Casting for our 2024/2025 Season

This autumn, English National Ballet returns with two retellings of Giselle. For the first time in five years, the critically acclaimed production by Akram Khan will be performed in London, at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Following five-star reviews in January, Mary Skeaping’s Giselle will go on tour in Liverpool and Manchester, returning to London Coliseum in January 2025.

Scroll down for casting for each performance – including many exciting debuts, marked with a * symbol.

The casting for our brand-new production of Nutcracker (28 – 30 November 2024 , Mayflower Theatre, Southampton; 12 December 2024 – 12 January 2025, London Coliseum) and The Forsythe Programme (10 – 19 April 2025, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London) will be announced in due course.

Akram Khan’s Giselle

In the roles of Giselle / Albrecht / Hilarion / Myrtha

Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

Erina Takahashi / James Streeter / Ken Saruhashi / Emma Hawes
18 September 7.30pm, 21 September 7.30pm, 24 September 7.30pm

Fernanda Oliveira / Aitor Arrieta / Erik Woolhouse / Sangeun Lee*
19 September 7.30pm, 23 September 7.30pm,  26 September 7.30pm

Emily Suzuki / Henry Dowden / TBA / Isabelle Brouwers
20 September 7.30 pm, 25 September 7.30pm, 28 September 7.30pm

Francesca Velicu* / Rentaro Nakaaki* / Jose María Lorca Menchón* / Angela Wood
21 September 2.30 pm, 27 September 7.30pm

TBA / TBA / Giorgio Garrett / Alice Bellini
26 September 2.30 pm, 28 September 2.30pm

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Mary Skeaping’s Giselle

In the roles Giselle / Albrecht / Hilarion / Myrtha / Peasant Pas de Deux

Liverpool Empire

Katja Khaniukova / Aitor Arrieta / Fabian Reimair / Precious Adams / Adriana Lizardi / Miguel Angel Maidana
23 October 7.30pm, 25 October 7.30pm

Shiori Kase / Ken Saruhashi / Erik Woolhouse / Emily Suzuki / Chloe Keneally / Noam Durand
24 October 7.30pm, 26 October 7.30pm

Ivana Bueno* / Daniel McCormick / Giorgio Garrett / Jung ah Choi / Haruhi Otani* / Edvinas Jakonis*
26 October 2.30pm

Palace Theatre Manchester

Fernanda Oliveira / Francesco Gabriele Frola / Henry Dowden / Julia Conway* / Ivana Bueno / Erik Woolhouse*
30 October 7.30pm, 1 November 7.30pm

Emma Hawes / Vsevolod Maievskyi / James Streeter / Angela Wood / Francesca Velicu / Shunhei Fuchiyama
31 October 7.30pm, 2 November 2.30pm

Sangeun Lee / Gareth Haw / Junor Souza / Eireen Evrard* / Haruhi Otani / Edvinas Jakonis
2 November 7.30pm

London Coliseum

Erina Takahashi / Francesco Gabriele Frola / James Streeter / Precious Adams / Ivana Bueno / Erik Woolhouse
15 January 7.30pm, 18 January 7.30pm

Katja Khaniukova / Aitor Arrieta / Fabian Reimair / Emily Suzuki / Adriana Lizardi / Miguel Angel Maidana
16 January 7.30pm, 18 January 2.30pm

Fernanda Oliveira / Lorenzo Trossello* / Henry Dowden / Anna Nevzorova* / Chloe Keneally / Noam Durand
17 January 2.30pm

Sangeun Lee / Gareth Haw / Junor Souza / Angela Wood / Francesca Velicu / Shunhei Fuchiyama
17 January 7.30pm

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* Debut in the role

Visit each production’s page for casting listed chronologically by performance.