| Years | align="center" width="30% | Directors | Ballet masters | Composition of the companies (seasons) |
| 1700 | Gio Paolo Bombarda | Pierre Deschars | |
| 1702 | Domenico Lorenzoni and Giuseppe Contri | | |
| 1704 | Gio Paolo Bombarda | | |
| 1705 | Jean Barrier, stage name Fonpré | ? | 1705–1706 |
| 1706 | Joseph de Pestel | Pierre Dubreuil ? | |
| 1708 | Francesco-Paolo D'Angelis | | |
| 1710 | Jean-Baptiste Grimberghs | ? | |
| 1715 | Jacques Vigoureux Duplessis | | 1715 |
| 1716 | Bruno-Emmanuel de Beaulieu | | |
| 1721 | Louise Dimanche | | |
| 1722 | Thomas-Louis Bourgeois | Reymond | |
| 1724 | Marianne Dujardin | ? | 1724 — 1725 |
| 1727 | Antonio Maria Peruzzi | | |
| 1728 | Joachim Landi | | |
| 1730 | Jean-Richard Le Roux, dit Durant | | |
| 1731 | Joseph Bruseau de La Roche | | |
| 1733 | François Moylin, stage name Francisque | | |
| 1734 | Nicolas Huau | | |
| 1736 | Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, stage name Dugazon | | |
| 1738 | Louis Desjardins, stage name Beaupré / François-Hyacinthe Ribon | | |
| 1740 | Pierre-Jacques Ribou de Ricard | | |
| 1743 | Joseph Uriot / Charles Plante and Jeanne Belhomme | | |
| 1744 | Jean-Baptiste Grimaldi, stage name Nicolini | | |
| 1745 | Jean-Nicolas Servandoni, stage name D'Hannetaire | | |
| 1746 | Charles-Simon Favart | Billioni | 1746–1748 |
| 1749 | Jean-Benoît Leclair / Giovanni Francesco Crosa / Hus frères | | |
| 1750 | Duc d'Arenberg, duc d'Ursel and marquis de Deynze | | |
| 1752 | Jean-François Fieuzal, stage name Durancy | François La Comme / Julien / Lemaire | 1753–1754 — 1754–1755 |
| 1755 | Jean-Nicolas Servandoni, stage name D'Hannetaire | Louis Devisse / Jean-Claude Lescot / Jean-Baptiste Pitrot | |
| 1759 | Léopold-Ignace Gourville | Joubert / Felicini / Jean-Baptiste Hus | 1761–1762 — 1762–1763 |
| 1763 | Charliers de Borchgravenbroeck, Pierre Gamond and Van Maldere | Charles Bernardy / Billioni | 1766–1767 |
| 1767 | D'Hannetaire and the "Comédiens associés" | Saint-Léger | 1767–1768 |
| 1772 | Ignaz Vitzthumb and Louis Compain | Laurent Bocquet | 1772–1773 — 1773–1774 — 1774–1775 — 1775–1776 |
| 1776 | Ignaz Vitzthumb | Auguste Fisse | 1776–1777 |
| 1777 | Louis-Jean Pin, Alexandre Bultos and Sophie Lothaire | Auguste Fisse / Louis Baland / Pierre-Jean Gambu | 1779–1780 — 1780–1781 — 1781–1782 — 1782–1783 |
| 1783 | Alexandre and Herman Bultos | Jean Malter, stage name Hamoir / Devos / Le Fèvre | 1783–1784 — 1784–1785 — 1785–1786 — 1786–1787 |
| 1787 | Herman Bultos | Jacques-Philippe Ledet | 1787–1788 — 1789–1790 |
| 1791 | Herman Bultos and Jean-Pierre-Paul Adam | | 1791–1792 — 1792–1793 |
| 1793 | Marguerite Brunet, stage name Mlle Montansier | (no ballet) | |
| 1794 | Herman Bultos & Jean-Pierre-Paul Adam | (no ballet) | |
| 1796 | Jean-Joseph Galler | (no ballet) | |
| 1798 | Marc d'Oberny & J.-F. Cussy dit Champmêlé | (no ballet) | |
| 1799 | Louis-François Ribié | (no ballet) | |
| 1801 | Joseph-Auguste Dubus | (no ballet) | 1801–1802 — 1802–1803 — 1803–1804 — 1804–1805 — 1805–1806 — 1806–1807 — 1807–1808 — 1808–1809 — 1809–1810 — 1810–1811 |
| 1811 | Gilles-Jean-Benoît Lecatte, stage name Folleville | (no ballet) | |
| 1815 | Pierre-Louis Stapleton, stage name Eugène Hus | Eugène Hus | |
| 1816 | Joseph-Auguste Dubus | Eugène Hus / Jean-Louis Oudart | |
| 1818 | Jean-Baptiste-Sauveur Gavaudan | | |
| 1819 | Claude Wolf, dit Bernard | Jean-Antoine Petipa | |
| 1823 | Joseph Langle | | |
| 1831 | Charles Laffillé | Victor Bartholomin | |
| 1833 | Claude-Charles Cartigny | | |
| 1835 | Bernard-Léon jeune, stage name Bernard | Pierre-Joseph Degreef / Pierre-Jean Aniel | |
| 1838 | Pierre Lemoigne | Albert | |
| 1840 | Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, Louis Jansenne, Charles Guillemin & Louis Van Caneghem | Pierre-Joseph Degreef / Jean-Antoine Petipa / Antoine Appiani | |
| 1847 | Auguste Nourrit | Hippolyte Barrez | |
| 1848 | Édouard Duprez & Eugène Massol | Adrien-Julien Renoux, stage name Adrien | |
| 1849 | Adolphe Grognier, stage name Jean-Baptiste Quélus | Henri Desplaces | |
| 1850 | Charles-Louis Hanssens | | |
| 1852 | Théodore-C.-A. Bauduin, stage name Letellier | Victor Bartholomin / Adrien | |
| 1858 | Adolphe Grognier, stage name Jean-Baptiste Quélus | Henri Desplaces | |
| 1861 | Théodore-C.-A. Bauduin, stage name Letellier | Henri Justamant / Hippolyte Monplaisir / Adolphe Vincent / Joseph Mazilier / Alfred Lamy | |
| 1869 | Jules-Henry Vachot | Pierre Hus / Eugène Chapuis / Joseph Hansen | |
| 1872 | François-Hippolyte Avrillon | Lucien Petipa | |
| 1873 | Auguste Deloche, stage name Campocasso | Joseph Hansen | |
| 1875 | Oscar Stoumon & Édouard-Fortuné Calabresi | Alfred Lamy / Joseph Hansen / Oscar Poigny | |
| 1885 | Camille-Henry-Joseph Verdhurdt | Joseph Hansen | |
| 1886 | Joseph Dupont & Alexandre Lapissida | Gaetano Saracco | |
| 1889 | Oscar Stoumon & Édouard-Fortuné Calabresi | Lafont | 1889–1900 |
| 1900 | Maurice Kufferath | Gaetano Saracco / François Ambrosiny | 1900–1901 — 1901–1902 — 1902–1903 — 1903–1904 — 1904–1905 — 1905–1906 — 1906–1907 — 1907–1908 — 1908–1909 — 1909–1910 — 1910–1911 |
| 1920 | Maurice Corneil de Thoran, Jean Van Glabbeke & Paul Spaak | | |
| 1943 | Maurice Corneil de Thoran | Marthe Coeck | |
| 1953 | Joseph Rogatchewsky | Nicolas Zverev / Jean-Jacques Etchevery | |
| 1959 | Maurice Huisman | Paul Goubé / (Maurice Béjart) | |
| 1981 | Gérard Mortier | (Maurice Béjart / Mark Morris) | (a more permanent company) |
| 1992 | Bernard Foccroulle | (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) | (choreographer in residence) |
| 2007 | Peter de Caluwe | — | |
