The 2026 Summer season will open with seven performances of Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake, led by Skylar Brandt as Odette/Odile and Herman Cornejo as Prince Siegfried at the matinee on Wednesday, June 17 at 2:00 P.M. Swan Lake will return for eight performances in the fifth week of the season, beginning, Monday, July 13 at 7:30 P.M., with Christine Shevchenko as Odette/Odile and Calvin Royal III as Prince Siegfried. Set to music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake is choreographed by Kevin McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov and features scenery and costumes by Zack Brown and lighting by Duane Schuler. This production of Swan Lake premiered on March 24, 2000, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. led by Julie Kent as Odette/Odile and Angel Corella as Prince Siegfried.

John Cranko’s Onegin returns on Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 P.M. with Heo Seo and James Whiteside in the leading roles. Set to music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze, Onegin is based on the verse-novel Eugene Onegin by Alexandrer Pushkin. Onegin received its World Premiere on April 13, 1965, by Stuttgart Ballet in Stuttgart, Germany. The ballet received its Company Premiere by American Ballet Theatre on June 1, 2001, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York led by Julie Kent (Tatiana), Robert Hill (Onegin), Vladimir Malakhov (Lensky), and Maria Riccetto (Olga). This new production, with sets and costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by James F. Ingalls, was premiered by National Ballet of Canada on June 19, 2010, at the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada, and was first performed by ABT on June 4, 2012, at the Metropolitan Opera House. Onegin will receive seven performances through June 27.

A new staging of Don Quixote by Susan Jaffe and Susan Jones will premiere on Monday, June 29 at 7:30 P.M., led by Catherine Hurlin as Kitri and Isaac Hernández as Basilio. With choreography after Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky, the ballet set to music by Ludwig Minkus and features scenery and costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Natasha Katz. Don Quixote will be given ten performances through July 7.

Sylvia will return for five performances beginning Thursday, July 9 at 7:30 P.M. led by Isabella Boylston as Sylvia and Joo Won Ahn as Aminta. With choreography by Frederick Ashton and music by Léo Delibes, Sylvia is set in mythical Greece and tells the story of the chaste nymph Sylvia who is united by the deity Eros with the lovelorn shepherd Aminta. Sylvia features scenery and costumes by Christopher and Robin Ironside, with additional designs by Peter Farmer and lighting by Mark Jonathan. This production received its revival premiere by The Royal Ballet on November 4, 2004, at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. American Ballet Theatre presented the United States Revival Premiere on June 3, 2005.