2025-26 Programs By Discipline

[surimi]

From the recent GS article about him:

Shunsuke Nakamura JPN
SP: "Yesterday" by The Beatles, performed by Babyface, Chloe Flower, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; choreo by Misha Ge
FS: The Last Samurai soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; choreo by Kana Muramoto

Uhh, two Yesterday SPs among the Japanese men this season (because Sota is recycling his old program)

Quite a number of warhorses, and a grateful shoutout to all skaters who have decided not to torment fans' ears with them. Kudos to Tatsuya, that's a pleasant surprise after the music choices of the previous seasons.

I expected the number or warhorses would increase because it's the Olympic season and few are bold enough to pick something original, sadly (and this is on the judges). But knowing why skaters do so doesn't make the actual listening any more enjoyable. Incidentally, I watched the Paris Air Show footage last week, and it's pretty sad that the planes' programs/routines/numbers/whatever it's called, were accompanied by less overplayed and better suited music than many skaters I see in this thread (though there was a Blue Danube offender also, lol)

Mai's choices give me retirement vibes... her friend Kaori is retiring next season, so it would make sense. Has Mai mentioned retirement?

 

[4everchan]

Sara Conti & Niccolo Macii ITA
SP:
FS: "Caruso" by Lara Fabian;.choreo by Romain Haguenauer

omy... @elektra blue again.. your fault

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Rino Matsuike will bring back her Lux Aeterna program, only this time as her SP. Choreo still by Lori Nichol.

 

[saine]

Nikolaj Memola ITA
SP: Tosca
FS: Scheherazade

Both choreographed by Barbara Fusar-Poli

Nikolaj Memola on Instagram: "Programs done! Short: Tosca, Giacomo Puccini (E lucevan le stelle, Luciano Pavarotti) Free: Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Thanks to Barbara FusarPoli for the amazing work that she has done for this programs.

422 likes, 18 comments - nikolajmemola on June 25, 2025: "Programs done! Short: Tosca, Giacomo Puccini (E lucevan le stelle, Luciano Pavarotti) Free: Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Thanks to Barbara FusarPoli for the amazing work that she has done for this programs. It’s always an...

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[4everchan]

it never ends.... lol

einaudi, verdi, puccini, caruso, bocelli... if someone skates to funiculi funicula, i am not watching the olympics

 

[elektra blue]

omy... @elektra blue again.. your fault

i'm innocent, officer. i'd give everyone Mina, Raffaella or less overused classical pieces

Nikolaj Memola ITA
SP: Tosca
FS: Scheherazade

the worhorse king

 

[elektra blue]

it never ends.... lol

einaudi, verdi, puccini, caruso, bocelli... if someone skates to funiculi funicula, i am not watching the olympics

Funiculì Funiculà only if the skater wears a spaghetti or mozzarella costume

 

[4everchan]

Funiculì Funiculà only if the skater wears a spaghetti or mozzarella costume

stop giving people ideas...

 

[elektra blue]

stop giving people ideas...

sorry not sorry, i have an award to run

 

[el henry]

Spousal Unit learned Funiculì Funuculà as a boy in one of his earlier Italian lessons in Naples. (he is not Italian, that's why he was taking lessons ) It is a Neapolitan tramway, after all.

He told me he might even watch figure skating if this were a program. But they need the full song. And Neapolitan dialect.

 

[elektra blue]

Spousal Unit learned Funiculì Funuculà as a boy in one of his earlier Italian lessons in Naples. (he is not Italian, that's why he was taking lessons ) It is a Neapolitan tramway, after all.

He told me he might even watch figure skating if this were a program. But they need the full song. And Neapolitan dialect.

tell him that one of your skaters (Jimmy Mah? Tomoki Hiwatashi? i don't remember well) skated to a taranta, it wasn't in neapolitan but in Puglia dialect, still close enough all debts must be paid

 

[TontoK]

tell him that one of your skaters (Jimmy Mah? Tomoki Hiwatashi? i don't remember well) skated to a taranta, it wasn't in neapolitan but in Puglia dialect, still close enough all debts must be paid

Semi-related to the conversation: When my wife and I were first married, we accepted an invite from some Italian American friends to a Knights of Columbus dinner/dance. Since then, I've always wished I had some identifiable Italian floating around in the bloodstream, because I've never had more fun in my life. The music was traditional and upbeat, and everybody danced every song whether they had any idea what they were doing or not.

 

[saine]

Yuma Kagiyama JPN
SP: "I Wish" cover by Marcin and Hayato Sumino (original by Stevie Wonder), choreo by Lori Nichol

【フィギュア】鍵山優真、五輪勝負曲はスティービー・ワンダー名曲　角野隼斗とコラボ - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

フィギュアスケート男子の22年北京五輪個人、団体銀メダリスト鍵山優真（22＝オリエンタルバイオ／中京大）が、念願の世界一を目指す25－26年ミラノ・コルティナ… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）

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I gave it a listen, it could be a fun program - https://youtu.be/bXZGSe5oZKs

 

[el henry]

Yuma Kagiyama JPN
SP: "I Wish" cover by Marcin and Hayato Sumino (original by Stevie Wonder), choreo by Lori Nichol

【フィギュア】鍵山優真、五輪勝負曲はスティービー・ワンダー名曲　角野隼斗とコラボ - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

フィギュアスケート男子の22年北京五輪個人、団体銀メダリスト鍵山優真（22＝オリエンタルバイオ／中京大）が、念願の世界一を目指す25－26年ミラノ・コルティナ… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）

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I gave it a listen, it could be a fun program - https://youtu.be/bXZGSe5oZKs

I'm so glad you attached the link, I was ready to be old and cranky and say just what is wrong with the one and only Stevie Wonder that "I Wish" needs to be covered?

But this jazz inflected instrumental version? I like. Looking forward to what Yuma does with it.

 

[spatzchen]

Ami Nakai JPN
SP: La Strada (Nino Rota), choreo by David Wilson

Kaoruko Wada JPN
SP: Piano Sonata No.0 “SOUMEI” by Hayato Sumino

 

[cohkaix]

Ami Nakai JPN
SP: La Strada (Nino Rota), choreo by David Wilson

Kaoruko Wada JPN
SP: Piano Sonata No.0 “SOUMEI” by Hayato Sumino

Also from Dreams on Ice:

Utana Yoshida & Masaya Morita 25-26 RD Stomp to My Beat/Butterfly

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Jade Hovine (BEL)
SP: Hymne à l'amour (Céline Dion)
Choreo by Thomas Rochelet
(posted on her instagram story)

 

[rabidline]

Sota Yamamoto (JPN)

SP: Yesterday by The Beatles, Michael Bolton cover (recycled from 2021-2022 and 2022-2023), choreo by Mihoko Higuchi

FS: Hallelujah, choreo by Lori Nichol

Source: https://number.bunshun.jp/premier/movies/18752

 

[spatzchen]

Ami Nakai JPN
SP: La Strada (Nino Rota), choreo by David Wilson

Kaoruko Wada JPN
SP: Piano Sonata No.0 “SOUMEI” by Hayato Sumino

*** Kaoruko's program is her FS, not SP oops

 

[saine]

David Bondar CAN
SP: Angelica by Hans Zimmer ft. Rodrigo y Gabriela, choreo by Juris Razgulajevs (kept from 2024-25)
FS: Game of Thrones, choreo by Jeffrey Buttle

From https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/i-really-want-to-establish-myself