[2] For the most part Bullion continued to be cast in leading villain roles in the Nureyev's versions of the classics (Abderam in Raymonda, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and Rothbart in Swan Lake).
His promotion to Premier danseur in 2007 gave him access to romantic roles such as Armand in John Neumeier's The Lady of the Camellias, Jean de Brienne in Nureyev's Raymonda and Albrecht in Patrice Bart's version of Corrali-Perrot's Giselle.
After reaching the status of Étoile he continued performing principal roles in the Nureyev repertoire, including Siegfried in Swan Lake, as well as Lucien d'Hervilly in Pierre Lacotte's Paquita.
World premieres: AndréAuria (Edouard Lock - 2002), MC14/22, Ceci est mon corps (2004), Ananda in Siddharta (2009) (Angelin Preljocaj), Répliques (2009) and Sept mètres et de mi au-dessus des montagnes (2017) (Nicolas Paul), Eros in Psyché, (Alexei Ratmansky - 2011), Vaudémont (the prince) in The Nutcracker (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Edouard Lock and Arthur Pita) in Iolanta-The Nutcracker directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2016, Play (Alexander Ekman - 2017) First interpreter at the Paris Opera Ballet: Morel (Proust or the heart's intermissions - Roland Petit- 2007), L’homme (The House of Bernarda - Mats Ek - 2008), l’Ame - (Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler - John Neumeier - 2009), Mikado (Kaguyahime - Jiří Kylián - 2010), Die Grosse Fuge and Die Verklärte Nacht (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker- 2015), Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon- 2015), Titania's Cavalier A Midsummer Night's Dream (George Balanchine - 2017) Stéphane Bullion was a favourite of choreographer Roland Petit (Proust or the Heart's Intermissions, Le Loup, L’Arlésienne, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, Carmen, Notre-Dame de Paris), Angelin Preljocaj (MC14/22, Le Songe de Médée, Siddharta, Le Parc), Nicolas Le Riche (Caligula), John Neumeier (The Lady of the Camellias, The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler) and others.
International invitations: In 2007, French choreographer Jean-Guillaume Bart asked him to dance Conrad, the main role in Le Corsaire, for the premiere of his production of the ballet in Yekaterinburg (Russia).