NUREMBERG The Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballet of Difference’s directed by choreographer Richard Siegal opens the season 2026/2027 on December 12th with the world premiere More New Ballets Russes at the Nuremberg Opera House.
This ambitious new triple bill, featuring three world premieres, builds upon the success of last season’s New Ballets Russes and further examines the complex legacy of Sergei Diaghilev’s legendary Les Ballets Russes and its enduring influence on ballet today.
The program opens with Richard Siegal’s Le bœuf sur le toit, set to the music of Darius Milhaud. The work, featuring a modular set by Jean-Marc Puissant and iconic costumes by Flora Miranda, stages a mordant comedy of disavowal, where carefree revelry carries on even as disaster looms at the edges.
Next, French-American choreographer Rachelle Anaïs Scott, from 2016 until 2019 part of the Nuremberg company, reimagines Debussy’s Echoes of a Faun, enriched with a new electronic composition by Davidson Jaconello. Featuring costumes and set by Jean-Marc Puissant, the work explores the fleeting nature of human recollection and longing, amid the aftermath of disaster.
South African-born Mthuthuzeli November (Resident Choreographer, Charlotte Ballet) concludes the evening with a new interpretation of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, with costumes by Yann Seabra and an imposing, monolithic set by November himself. Taking inspiration from the Strasbourg outbreak of St. Vitus’ Dance in 1518, in which hundreds danced themselves to exhaustion, injury, and even death, November brings out startling new resonances in this groundbreaking work of modernist music.
The evening, which features a modern lighting design by Matthias Singer, is accompanied live by Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, under the direction of Christopher Schumann.

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