The Nutcracker 2026 Principal Casting announced

We are excited to announce the Principal casting for our upcoming 2026 run of The Nutcracker at Birmingham Hippodrome!

Sugar Plum Fairy
Céline Gittens, Momoko Hirata, Yu Kurihara, Sofia Liñares, Miki Mizutani, Katherine Ochoa, Beatrice Parma, Yaoqian Shang, and Lucy Waine. 

The Prince
Enrique Bejarano Vidal, Tzu-Chao Chou, Mathias Dingman, Haoliang Feng, Yasiel Hodelín, Riku Ito, Mason King, Max Maslen, and Lachlan Monaghan. 

Clara
Olivia Change-Clarke, Rosanna Ely, Reina Fuchigami, Alisa Garkavenko, Maïlène Katoch, Sofia Liñares, Katherina Ochoa, Rachele Pizzillo, and Sophie Walters.

Conductors
Giovanni Fanizza, Thomas Jung, Subin Kim, Paul Murphy, and Yi Wei.

The Nutcracker runs from Friday 20 November to Saturday 12 December 2026. Click here for the performance calendar to see who's dancing when.