New York City Ballet’s winter season will open with George Balanchine’s three-part abstract work “Jewels” on January 2, the company announced yesterday.

The company’s winter season will also include a world-premiere ballet by the artistic director of Italy’s Aterbaletto, Mauro Bigonzetti, which will feature music by long-time collaborator Bruno Moretti. The ballet, Mr. Bigonzetti’s third with the NYCB, will make its premiere on January 23, as part of NYCB’s “New Combinations” evening, celebrating company founder George Balanchine’s birthday. “Double Feature,” by the choreographer Susan Stroman will be performed from Januar y 31 through February 6.

The season will also featured the a new work by the resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which will open on February 7, and the re-staging of artistic director Peter Martins’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which begins performances on January 5.

A special performance will be devoted to longtime principal dancer Nikolaj Hübbe, who will be leaving the company to become the artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. The tribute, which takes place on February 10, will feature segments from Balanchine’s “Apollo” and “Western Symphony,” and Jerome Robbins’s “West Side Story Suite.”