Theatre productions had been requested and performed by other companies including Norwegian National Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Stefano Giannetti Stefano Giannetti became fourth Artistic Director after a career including dancing and creating principal roles at English National Ballet and Deutsche Oper Ballet. His first work was an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. However, he was to leave the company after only a year. David Nixon OBE The fifth appointment to the role of Artistic Director was given to former National Ballet of Canada principal dancer David Nixon in August 2001. In February 2002 he presented his revised version of Madame Butterfly. That was followed by his tribute to the music of George and Ira Gershwin, I Got Rhythm. Nixon's first full-length new work for the company was Wuthering Heights, a collaboration with composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. It premiered at the Bradford Alhambra Theatre in September 2002. The company followed this original work with a production of Birgit Scherzer's Requiem!! and Nixon's a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which also saw Northern Ballet perform at the West Yorkshire Playhouse for the first time. This was followed by new productions of Swan Lake, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers, A Sleeping Beauty Tale, The Nutcracker and Hamlet. Autumn 2008 saw the company tour with another new ballet from Cathy Marston telling the classic Dickens story A Tale of Two Cities. 2009 was the company's 40th anniversary; on Monday, 6 September 2010, the company announced that it was changing its name to "Northern Ballet", dropping "theatre" from its title. In 2011 Northern Ballet premiered two new works - Cléopâtre on 26 February 2011 and Beauty & the Beast on 17 December 2011 both choreographed by David Nixon OBE at Leeds Grand Theatre. In 2012 Ondine was added to the repertoire, originally created by David Nixon for Ballet du Rhin. 2013 also saw the creation of two new full-length ballets; The Great Gatsby and Cinderella. Both productions were choreographed by David Nixon and again received their world premieres at Leeds Grand Theatre. In 2012 the company started producing ballet's created especially for young children. The first was Ugly Duckling choreographed by Company dancers Dreda Blow and Sebastian Loe. The second, Three Little Pigs choreographed by dancers Hannah Bateman and Victoria Sibson. The third, Elves & the Shoemaker was choreographed by Northern Ballet Ballet Master Daniel de Andrade with