Following its success last year, The Ballet Icons Gala 2023 returns to Dubai Opera with a stellar international cast celebrating the beautiful art of ballet on Saturday 4 March 2023 at 8.00pm.

The Ballet Icons Gala is a highly acclaimed star-studded event in London now making Dubai Opera its second home. It is considered by audiences and critics as one of world’s cultural and social highlights.

The show is performed by international ballet stars and multi-awarded principals from the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Vienna State Ballet, Bavarian State Ballet, New York City Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Ballets de Monte-Carlo and others with the highlights from the classical ballet repertoire such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Les Corsaires, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, Romeo & Juliette and contemporary masterpieces by leading choreographers of the 20/21 centuries such as Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins, Alexey Ratmansky, Akram Khan, Wayne McGregor, John Neumeier, Jean-Christophe Maillot and Mauro Bigonzetti.

Tipped as “a grand affair on a global scale…” by Sunday Express, this is an event you simply cannot miss.

Among performing stars are:

Maia Makhateli – Victor Caixeta, Dutch National Ballet
Iana Salenko – Marian Walter, Berlin State Ballet
Nicoletta Manni – Timofej Andrijashenko, La Scala Milan
Yasmin Naghdi – Matthew Ball, Royal Ballet
Lucia Lacarra, Bavarian State Opera – Matthew Golding, Dutch National Ballet
Sergio Bernal, National Ballet of Spain
Evelina Godunova, Berlin State Ballet – Julian MacKay, Bavarian State Ballet
Polina Semionova – David Motta Soares, Berlin State Ballet
Guiseppe Picone, Teatro di Carlo