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Alina Cojocaru

Guest Dancer

Alina Cojocaru

Born in Bucharest , Alina Cojocaru trained in Kiev for seven years before joining the Royal Ballet School in 1997. Upon completion of her training, six monts later, she returned to Kiev, to join the Company as a principal dancer. A year later, she joined the Royal Ballet Company (November 1999) and, at the end of the season, was promoted to Soloist. On 17 April 2001 Royal Ballet Artistic Director Sir Anthony Dowell promoted Ms. Cojocaru to the rank of principal dancer after her performance of "Giselle".

Ms. Cojocaru joined the English National Ballet (ENB) in September 2013, as a Leading Principal Dancer. While a member of ENB she continues to perform as a regular guest artist with the Hamburg Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and with companies worldwide.

Ms. Cojocaru has Organized Gala's in Romania and in London for the Romanian charity Hospice of Hope over the last few years. In February 2012 Ms. Cojocaru premiered her Alina Cojocaru - Dream Project, in Tokyo, Japan, which she directed and staged, while performing with friends and colleagues from the Tokyo Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, ENB and Royal Ballet.

As a Guest Artist, Ms. Cojocaru appears with the Kirov Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Zurich Ballet, National Ballet of Portugal, La Scala Ballet, Nacional Ballet Of Cuba, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, National Ballet of Romania, South African Ballet Theater, Kremlin Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Zagreb Ballet. Galas with the Hamburg Ballet, La Scala Ballet, National Ballet Of China, Ballet Basel, National Ballet of Latvia, Munich Ballet, Dortmund Ballet, National Ballet of Finland, Morphoses Company, The 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th World Ballet Festival (Tokyo) as well as galas in South Korea, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, USA and Denmark.

Repertory includes: Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake", Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", "Giselle", Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in "The Sleeping Beauty", Julie in "Liliom", Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Vera and Natalya in "A Month in the Country", Kitri in "Don Quixote", Olga and Tatiana in "Onegin", "Cinderella", The Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in "The Nutcracker", Titania in "The Dream", Titania and Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Ballerina in "Etudes", Nikiya in "La Bayadere", Diamonds in "Jewels", Medora in "Le Corsaire", "Symphonic Variations", Mary Vetsera in "Mayerling", "Manon", "La Sylphide"," In the Night", "Las Hermanas", Swanilda in "Coppelia", "Scènes de Ballet", "Gong", "Masquerade", "Polyphonia", "Symphony in C", Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe", Lise in "La Fille mal gardée", Student in "The Lesson", "Duo Concertant", "The Leaves are Fading", "Other Dances", "Voices of Spring", "Beyond Bach", "Tombeaux", "Ondine", "The Virtiginous Thrill of Exatitude", Fête Polonaise, "Stars and Stripes", "Raymonda" – Act 3, "Flames of Paris", "Flower Festival", "Napoli" – Act 3, "Grand Pas Classique", "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux", "Mussorgsky Waltz", "Dances at a Gathering", "The Dying Swan", "Rushes", "Two Footnotes", "Chroma", "Bird as a Prophet" and many more.

Creations includes: "Musketeer" and "Valse" (Rubina Alla Davidovna), Swanilda in "Coppelia" (Anatolyi Shekera), "Ad infinitium" (Vanessa Fenton), "There Where She Loved" (Christopher Wheeldon), "This House will Burn" (Ashley Page), "Les Saisons" (David Bintley), "Two Footnotes", "Bird as a Prophet", "Rushes" (Kim Brandstrup), "Engram and Chroma" (Wayne McGregor), "Les Lutins" and "La Sylphide" (Johan Kobborg), Julie in "Liliom" (John Neumeier), "24 Préludes" (Alexei Ratmansky) and others.

Prizes and Awards includes: "Dancer of the Year" – German Dance Critics Award (2012), Benois de la Danse – Best female dancer – "Liliom" (2012), "Ballerina of the Decade" Award (Moscow 2010), VIP Romanian Music and Performing Arts Award (2010), The Nijinsky Award – Best Female Dancer (2004), Benois de la Danse – Best Female Dancer – "Giselle" (2004), Internationaler Movimentos Tanz Preis – Best Female Dancer (2004), Critics' Circle Dance Award – Best female dancer (2002), Nagoya International Ballet Competition – Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne (1997), in April 2002 The president of Romania Ion Iliescu presented Ms. Cojocaru with the medal of Cavaler of Romania (Ordinul National "Pentru Merit" in gradul de cavaler).

Video, TV and live relays include: Kennedy Center Honors 2012, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Nutcracker, Onegin, Daphnis and Chloe, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The South Bank Show, The Dream, Mime Matters, Don Quixote and pas de deux in various galas.

Performances

Drosselmeier

Alessandro Frola

Louise

Madoka Sugai

Günter

Christopher Evans

Principal

Christopher Evans

BORN
2.11.94 in Loveland, CO. American

EDUCATION
BalletMet Dance Academy
Canada's National Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet

MAIN TEACHERS
Susan Dromisky, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Kevin Haigen

ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2012, Soloist 2015, Principal since 2018

CREATIONS
Jim O'Connor in "The Glass Menagerie"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"

and solos in

Turangalîla
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)

REPERTORY
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fabian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatjana"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Man I in "Bernstein Dances"
Gustav von Aeschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet 21"
Love/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Catalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Neufassung 2021)
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "Endstation Sehnsucht"
Odysseus in *Odyssey"
Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Mann in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Prince Florizel in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
St John Rivers in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)

and solos in

Préludes CV
Petrushka-Variations
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
At Midnight
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)

HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Soul Sketch"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"A Cosmic Second"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017

AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2010
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2015

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Performances

Fritz

Francesco Cortese

Conductor

Simon Hewett

Conductor

Simon Hewett

Simon Hewett is the Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Opera, and Principal Conductor of the Hamburg Ballet. In addition to his commitments with these two companies, he has performed regularly in recent seasons with Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne, the Komische Oper in Berlin, and the Paris Opera Ballet. His performances are frequently praised for their stylistic fluency, emotional intensity and technical precision.

Simon Hewett studied clarinet and conducting at the University of Queensland, graduating with First Class Honours and a University Medal. At 19 he was the youngest ever finalist in the ABC Young Conductor of the Year Award, and conducted the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Hindemith's "Symphonische Metamorphosen". In 1998 he was awarded a German Government Scholarship and studied operatic and symphonic conducting for 3 years at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany.

From 2002-03 Simon Hewett was a member of Opera Australia's Young Artists' Programme, and made his debut at the Sydney Opera house in October 2003, conducting Bizet's "Les Pêcheurs du perles". He was immediately reengaged for performances of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in 2004. He has since returned regularly to Opera Australia as a guest conductor, for "Tosca" (2005), "Turandot" (2006), and to lead the revival of Harry Kupfer's critically acclaimed production of "Otello" (2008). He returned to Sydney in 2009 for "Aida" and a new production of "Così fan tutte" with director Jim Sharman. In 2011 he conducted "Macbeth" for Opera Australia and "Falstaff" for the West Australian Opera. In 2012 he led critically acclaimed new productions of "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Salome" for Opera Australia.

In 2005 Simone Young invited Simon Hewett to join the Hamburg State Opera as Resident Conductor and Assistant Music Director. Since his debut with "La Traviata" in 2005, he has conducted over 200 performances in Hamburg of a large repertoire of opera and ballet. In 2008 he debuted at the Komische Oper with "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", returning in 2010 for "Die Entführung aus dem Serail".

Following successful performances of "Der Fliegende Holländer" for the Stuttgart Opera in 2010, Simon Hewett was invited to become Principal Conductor. In 2012/13 he led revivals of "Die Fledermaus" and "Tosca". He has since conducted new productions of "La Bohème" and "Khovanshchina", and a wide range of other repertoire in Stuttgart including "Die Fledermaus", "Nabucco", "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly", "Eugene Onegin" and "Der Freischütz".

As a symphonic conductor Simon Hewett has appeared with the Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. His interest in contemporary music is documented through his long relationship with the Elision Contemporary Music Ensemble, with whom he has performed frequently since 1996, touring with them to Korea in 1997 and Europe in 1998. He has performed with Elision at all of Australia's major festivals, conducting the world premieres of Richard Barrett's "Opening of the Mouth", and Liza Lim's opera "Moon Spirit Feasting". His CD of Richard Barrett's "Opening of the Mouth" with the Elision Ensemble was reviewed by the BBC Music Magazine upon its release as "Pick of the Month".

Since conducting the premiere of John Neumeier's "Parzival" at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in 2006, Simon Hewett has enjoyed a close and productive collaboration with the Hamburg Ballet. He has toured with the Hamburg Ballet to the Salzburg Festival, Australia, the United States of America and Japan. His performances of John Neumeier's production of Mahler's 3rd Symphony at the Paris Opera were broadcast in cinemas worldwide and recorded for DVD release. He led the world premiere of John Neumeier's ballet "Tatiana" (2014), also recorded for DVD release, and the premiere of a new ballet based on the life of the celebrated Italian actress Eleonora Duse (2015). In December 2016 he will lead the German Premiere of "The Song of the Earth", a ballet by John Neumeier to music by Gustav Mahler.

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Orchestra

Symphoniker Hamburg

Die Symphoniker Hamburg sind seit 1957 das originäre Symphonieorchester aller Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger. Sie stehen für Konzerte, die höchsten künstlerischen Ansprüchen genügen, für eine ungewöhnlich vielseitige Musikvermittlung, für Profil in gesellschaftlichen Debatten und für den traditionsreichen Standort: Die Laeiszhalle, deren Residenzorchester sie sind. Die Symphoniker Hamburg gelten nach bald sechs Jahrzehnten als essentieller Bestandteil des Hamburger Musiklebens sowie als Repräsentant der noch jungen Idee einer Musikstadt Hamburg.

Der Intendant Daniel Kühnel und der weltweit renommierte Orchesterchef Sir Jeffrey Tate haben sich seit Beginn ihrer Zusammenarbeit im Jahre 2009 mit der profilierten Programmgestaltung einen Namen gemacht. Nicht zuletzt durch anspruchsvolle und unverwechselbare Programme, die zum Synonym für die Konzerte der Symphoniker Hamburg geworden sind, ist es gelungen, die Zahl der Besucher erheblich zu steigern. Völlig unerwartet starb Sir Jeffrey am 2. Juni 2017.

Mit ihrem Gespür für außergewöhnliche Künstler – der herausragende Geiger Guy Braunstein ist Erster Gastkünstler, zudem konnte 2014 mit Ion Marin ein profilierter Erster Gastdirigent gewonnen werden – arbeiten die Symphoniker Hamburg stets daran, für ihre Stadt ein unverwechselbares Qualitätsprofil zu entwickeln. Dieses soll in alle nur erdenklichen Lebensbereiche hinein wirken, von jedem Hamburger gehört und erlebt werden und über die Stadtgrenzen hinaus strahlen. Der Wirkungskreis der Symphoniker Hamburg ist dementsprechend nicht auf die Laeiszhalle beschränkt, sondern erstreckt sich auch auf die Hochschule für Musik und Theater, auf die Hamburgische Staatsoper sowie auf Konzertsäle des Umlands. Insbesondere die Musikvermittlung für Kinder und Jugendliche bildet dabei einen wesentlichen Schwerpunkt. Mit ihrer Aktion „MusikImPuls“ machen sie seit 2015 die Straßen und Plätze Hamburgs zur Bühne.
Tourneen führten das Orchester u.a. nach Japan, in die USA und in viele europäische Länder.

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photo: J. Konrad Schmidt

Cast

Alina Cojocaru

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Alessandro Frola

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Madoka Sugai

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Christopher Evans

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Francesco Cortese

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Simon Hewett

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Symphoniker Hamburg

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