Ballet by John Neumeier based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas | Lady of the Camellias
Marguerite Gautier
Madoka Sugai
Principal
BORN
12.7.94 in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Japanese
EDUCATION
Sasaki Mika Ballet Academy (Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture)
MAIN TEACHERS
Mika Sasaki, Mikio Ikehata
ENGAGEMENTS
National Youth Ballet in 2012
Hamburg Ballet since 2014. Soloist in 2017, Principal since 2019
CREATIONS
A Mystic and A young Woman in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Beethoven Project
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Solo for Two (Konstantin Tselikov)
Little Requiem (Aleix Martínez)
Götterboten (Aljoscha Lenz)
REPERTORY
Peasant Pas de deux in "Giselle"
Cinderella in "A Cinderella Story"
Marguerite Gautier and Prudence Duvernoy in "Lady of the Camellias"
Princess Natalia in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Woman III in "Bernstein Dances"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Ophelia in "Hamlet 21"
Sylvia in "Sylvia"
Princess Aurora, Princess Florine, Mercury and Aurora, the Dawn in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Louise and The Beautiful Girl from Granada in "The Nutcracker"
Bronislava Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Circe in "Odyssey"
Dolly in "Anna Karenina"
Woman in Apricot in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Kitri/Dulcinea in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Princess Perdita in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Broadway's Pavlova
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2012
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2018
More about Madoka Sugai
Armand Duval
Alessandro Frola
Principal
BORN
3.9.2000 in Parma, Italy. Italian
EDUCATION
Profession Dance Parma
Fomento Artístico Cordobés, Córdoba, Veracruz/Mexico
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Lucia Giuffrida, Francesco Frola, Adria Velásquez, Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Gigi Hyatt
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019, Soloist in 2022, Principal since 2023
CREATIONS
The Shadow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solo in
Peter and Igor
REPERTORY
Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Cupid's Blessing in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Wolf Beifeld in "Liliom"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Pas de deux in "A Cinderella Story"
The Man in the Shadow, Prince Siegfried and Prince Alexander in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Love in "Bernstein Dances"
Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Allan Gray in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker"
Armand in "Lady of the Camellias"
A Suitor / The War in "Odyssey"
Mr Brocklehurst in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
AWARD
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2023
More about Alessandro Frola
Manon Lescaut
Silvia Azzoni
Character Dancer
BORN
3.11.73, Turin. Italian
EDUCATION
Baletna Skola in Torino
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Dragica Zach, Marianne Kruuse, Ilse Wiedmann, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
The Hamburg Ballet since 1993, Soloist in 1996, Principal in 2001, Character Dancer in 2021
CREATIONS
Olga Preobrajenska in "Nijinsky"
Silvia in "Préludes CV"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
The Angel in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
The Rival (Sarah Bernhardt) in "Duse"
Woman in "Rennen hinter dem was flieht" (Stephan Thoss)
Teresina in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
and solos in
Time after Time from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Verklungene Feste
Pizzicato Polka (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Um Mitternacht
Ghost Light
Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
VIII (Christhopher Wheeldon)
Equilibrio (Sasha Riva)
Renku (Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
Ouroboros (Yuka Oishi)
The Episodes of Absence (Miljana Vracaric)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)
REPERTORY
Pallas Athena und Nausikaa in "Odyssey"
Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ballerina in "Petrushka"
Hippolyta/Titania and Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier, Manon Lescaut and Prudence in "Lady of the Camellias"
Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Aurora, The Good Fairy and Princess Florine in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Marie, The Chinese Bird and Esmeralda and the Clowns in "The Nutcracker"
Cinderella, the Stepmother and a Stepsister in "A Cinderella Story"
Odette, Princess Claire and The Queen Mother in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Giselle, Peasant Pas de deux and Moyna in "Giselle"
Elaine in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Rosalind in "As You Like It"
The Other - Ingrid, The green One, Anitra in "Peer Gynt"
Tamara Karsavina and Romola Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Constanze Weber in "Windows on MOZART"
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Michajlowna Saretschnaj in "The Seagull"
Sylvia in "Sylvia"
Tamara Karsavina in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desir"
Contemplator of the Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
Alma in "Purgatorio"
Ophelia (Pas de deux) in "Hamlet"
Eleonora Duse in "Duse"
Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
Nikiya in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Lise in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
La Sylphide in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
An Old Woman, 300 years old and The Choosen one in "Le Sacre du Printemps" (Millicent Hodson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
Woman in Blue and in Pink in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Paulina in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Mrs Fairfax in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Now and Then
Bernstein-Serenade
Saint Matthew Passion
Petrushka-Variations
Bernstein Dances
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Shall we dance?
Spring and Fall
Désir
Bach Suite 2
Sounds of Empty Pages
Rückert-Lieder
Winter Ways from "Images from Bartók"
Requiem
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
She was black (Mats Ek)
Light Beings (Mats Ek)
Mercurial Manoeuvres (Christopher Wheeldon)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
Thaïs Pas de deux (Frederic Ashton)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Not without my Head (Natalia Horecna)
Bella Figura (Jirí Kylián)
Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Easter Concert 2000 and 2002), Moscow, Ludwigsburg, Warsaw, Milano, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010; Christmas Charity Gala 2008), Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), Italy (Alessandra Ferri & Friends, Roberto Bolle & Friends Galas, Alessandra Ferri's Farewell Gala and Silvia Azzoni & Friends Gala), New York (Stars of the 21st Century Gala), St. Petersburg (Open Dance Festival), Taipei (International Ballet Gala 2010), Australia and Manuel Legris Galas in Vienna and Tokyo. She danced the role of Nikiya in "La Bayadère" with the Royal Ballet in London.
She worked on Donya Feuer's documentary: "The Work of Utopia".
AWARDS
Dr.-Wilhhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1996
Danza & Danza Prize 2004 - Best Italian Dancer Abroad
Rolf Mares Prize for the Hamburg Theaters 2006/2007 in the category "Outstandig Performance" for "The Little Mermaid"
"Benois de la Danse 2008" for her performance of the main role in "The Little Mermaid"
Les Étoiles de Ballet2000 Dance Award
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2013
Premio Roma 2014
More about Silvia Azzoni
Des Grieux
Alexandre Riabko
Character Dancer
BORN
20.2.78 in Kiev. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Kiev Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Vladimir Denisenko, Anatoli Nisnevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 1996. Soloist in 1999, Principal in 2001, Character Dancer in 2022
CREATIONS
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Sascha in "Préludes CV"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
Pas de deux "For Elizabeth" (Osterkonzert 2004, Munich)
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
creator spiritus in "Purgatorio"
The young Man in "Rennen hinter dem was flieht" (Stephan Thoss)
Gennaro in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
and solos in
Yondering
Winter Ways from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
For Elizabeth
Pizzicato Polka (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Ghost Light
VIII (Christhopher Wheeldon)
Beautiful Freak (Marco Goecke)
Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
You Never Know (Yaroslav Ivanenko)
Ouroboros (Yuka Oishi)
Ricochet (Sasha Riva)
From a "C-Utopia" (Lizhong Wang)
The Episodes of Absence (Miljana Vracaric)
REPERTORY
Theseus/Oberon, Philostrat/Puck, Demetrius and Bottom/Pyramus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Sir Andrew in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Drosselmeier, Günter and Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
The King and Count Alexander in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Albert and Paesant-Pas de deux in "Giselle"
Mordred in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Aminta and Eros/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Peer's Aspects – Aggression and Vision in "Peer Gynt"
Orlando in "As You Like It"
Don Juan in "Don Juan"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Blue Bird in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
The War in "Odyssey"
Wolferl in "Windows on MOZART"
Parzival in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Edvard/The Prince and The Sea Witch in "The Little Mermaid"
A Shepherd and an Angel in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Jago in "Othello"
Joseph in "The Legend of Joseph"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Hamlet (Pas de deux) in "Hamlet"
Orpheus in "Orpheus"
Contemplator of the Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
The Man (Vaslav Nijinsky) in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
The Mentor (Arrigo Boito) in "Duse"
A Mushik in "Anna Karenina"
The Knight in "Light Beings" (Mats Ek)
Solor in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Colas in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
James in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Man in Brown in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
and solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Spring and Fall
Bach Suite 2
Désir
Saint Matthew Passion
Shall we dance?
Getting Closer
Spring and Fall
Opus 100 – for Maurice
Rückert-Lieder
Requiem
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Remanso (Nacho Duato)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Triple Self (Petr Zuska)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
Thaïs Pas de deux (Frederic Ashton)
Glinka Pas de trois (George Balanchine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Bella Figura (Jirí Kylián)
Thaïs (Kevin Haigen)
Not without my Head (Natalia Horecna)
Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
Trio (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Dresden, Prag, Dusseldorf, Munich (Easter Concert 2004), Japan (Ballet World Festival 2003 and 2006, Christmas Charity Gala 2008), Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), Étoiles Gala 2008 and 2010 in Tokyo, Cremona, Verona, Macerata, Taormina (Alessandra Ferri and Friends), Italy (Roberto Bolle & Friends Galas, Alessandra Ferri's Farewell Gala and Silvia Azzoni & Friends Gala), Berlin (Malakov and Friends Gala), St. Petersburg (Open Dance Festival), Monte-Carlo (Ballets Russes Centennial Gala in Honor of HRH The Princess of Hanover), Tapei (International Ballet Gala 2009 and 2010), Australia and Manuel Legris Galas in Vienna and Tokyo. 2012 he was a guest with Alina Cojocaru in galas in London and Tokyo, with Yuan Yuan Tan in San Francisco. He danced Nijnsky as a guest in John Neumeier's ballet "Nijinsky" with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto.
AWARDS
Finalist of the Prix de Lausanne
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2001
Les Étoiles de Ballet2000 Dance Award
Premio Roma 2014
Benois de la Danse 2016
Prudence Duvernoy
Ana Torrequebrada
Soloist
BORN
3.5.2000 in Burgos, Spain. Spanish
EDUCATION
Escuela Profesional de Danza "Ana Laguna"
Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Ana González Barca, Juan Carlos Santamaría, Gigi Hyatt, Leslie Hughes, Ann Drower
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019, Soloist since 2023
REPERTORY
Marie, The Beautiful Girl from Granada and The Chinese Bird in "The Nutcracker"
Cupid's Blessing and the Moon in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Princess Claire in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Prudence Duvernoy in "Lady of the Camellias"
Circe in "Odyssey"
A Shepherdess in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Young Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
solos in
Broadway's Pavlova
Ghost Light
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
More about Ana Torrequebrada
Gaston Rieux
Artem Prokopchuk
Corps de Ballet
BORN
1.1.98 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Accademia Nazionale di Danza Roma
Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Irina Rosca, Brunella Vidau, Manuela Cerreto, Janusz Mazon, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENTS
Le Vie del Teatro in Terra di Siena
National Youth Ballet 2017-2019
Hamburg Ballet since 2019
REPERTORY
Flute/Thisbe in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Jaschu in "Death in Venice"
A Thorn Creature in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Speaker in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
The Unicorn in "The Glass Menagerie"
Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet"
Keifaber in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Petrushka in ‘Petrushka’, The Golden Slave in ‘Sheherazade' and The Faun in 'L'Après-midi d'un faune' in "Nijinsky"
Gaston Rieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Father Sheperd in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solo in
Beethoven Project II
Monsieur Duval
Ivan Urban
Ballet Master
BORN
17.1.75 in Gomel. White Russian
EDUCATION
Minsk Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Alexander Ivanovich Kaladenko, Anatoli Nisnevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 1994, Soloist in 1997, Principal in 1998, Ballet Master since 2020
CREATIONS
Telemachos in "Odyssey"
King Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet" ('97 version)
Sir Andrew in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Eros in "Bernstein Dances"
Serge Diaghilev in "Nijinsky"
Carsten in "Préludes CV"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
The Doctor and Serge Diaghilev in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin in "Anna Karenina"
and solos in
Time after Time from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Osterkonzert 2004, Munich)
Du und Du-Waltzer (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Verklungene Feste
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
REPERTORY
Daphnis in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Armand, Des Grieux, Monsieur Duval and Comte N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
The young boy in "In The Between"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Blue Bird in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Drosselmeier and Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo, Tybalt, Lord Capulet and Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Hamlet in "Hamlet" and Polonius in "Hamlet 21"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
Malvolio in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
The main role in "Bernstein Dances"
The King, Prince Leopold and Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Albert in "Giselle"
Peer, Solveig's Father and The Producer in "Peer Gynt"
Merlin in "The Saga of King Arthur""
Don Juan in "Don Juan"
Gustav von Aschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Odysseus in "Odyssey"
The Poet in "The Little Mermaid"
Her Husband in "Christmas Oratorio"
Jago in "Othello"
The Angel in "The Legend of Joseph"
Liliom and Gate Keeper in "Liliom"
Piotr Nikolayevich Sorin in "The Seagull"
The High Brahmin in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
The Young Boy in "Light Beings" (Mats Ek)
The Prince in The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
Madge, a Witch in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Man in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Husband in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Don Quixote in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Petrushka-Variations
Fratres
Requiem
Spring and Fall
Bernstein-Serenade
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony (Gustav Mahler)
hello
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Bach Suite 2
Le Sacre
Magnificat
Opus 100 – for Maurice
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Afternoon of a Faun
Remanso (Nacho Duato)
Le Pavillon d'Armide (Michail Fokine)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Jewels – Diamonds (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Berlin, Dusseldorf, Essen, Munich (Easter Concert 2000 and 2002), Moscow, Bordeaux, Toronto, Beijing, Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), St.Barth's Music Festival, World Ballet Festival 2006 in Japan, Roberto Bolle and Friends-Galas in Italy, at the Charity Gala "Event Prominent" 2007 and 2010 in Hamburg and 2011 at a Tribute to Natalia Makarova in Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
He danced the role of Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull" with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto and with the ballet of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow.
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Instant"
Music: Samuel Barber
Premiere: Bolshoi Theatre on November 22, 2006
Cast: Bolshoi principal dancers' Marianna Ryzhkina and Yan Godovsky
AWARDS
In 1992 he was half finalist of the "Prix de Lausanne" and received a scholarship from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation to complete his education at The Hamburg Ballet School.
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1996
Olympia
Eleanor Broughton
Apprentice
BORN
13.1.2004 in Winston-Salem (NC/USA). Amerikanerin
EDUCATION
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
TEACHERS
Eva Draw, Laura Martin, Jared Redick,, Gigi Hyatt, Elizabeth Loscavio, Stacey Denham, Janusz Mazon
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2023
REPERTORY
Olympia in "Lady of the Camellias"
Nausicaa in "Odyssey"
Graf N.
Emiliano Torres
Corps de Ballet
BORN
August 8, 1996 in Paraná, Argentina. Argentinian
EDUCATION
Estudió arte Carla Tista
Houston Ballet Academy
MAIN TEACHERS
Susana Gomez, Carla Tista, Eugenia Ibarzabal, Priscilla Murphy, Sabrina Lenzi, Andrew Murphy, Claudio Muñoz
ENGAGEMENTS
National Youth Ballet 2017-2019
Hamburg Ballet since 2019
REPERTORY
Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet"
Count N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
Solo in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
More about Emiliano Torres
Nanina
Francesca Harvey
Corps de Ballet
BORN
26.3.2000 in Winchester, England. Briton/French/American
EDUCATION
The Royal Ballet School
Elmhurst Ballet School
Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Vanessa Palmer, Leslie Hughes, Gigi Hyatt, Janusz Mazon, Stacey Denham
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019
REPERTORY
Nanina in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Sea in "Odyssee"
More about Francesca Harvey
The Duke
Florian Pohl
Soloist
BORN
19.9.89 in Karlsruhe. German
EDUCATION
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHER
Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2009. Soloist since 2019
CREATIONS
A figure from the romantic novels Tatiana loves to read in "Tatiana"
and solos in
Einflüsse (Miljana Vracaric)
Rely on Trust (Florian Pohl)
I Giorni (Florian Pohl)
REPERTORY
The Man in the Shadowand Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Horvendel in "Hamlet"/"Hamlet 21"
Charles in "As You Like It"
Paris in "Romeo and Juliet"
The three wise men in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Ilya Afanasevich Shamrajev and The Star of the Revue in "The Seagull"
Stiva in "Anna Karenina"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
King Florestan XXIV and a Russian Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Balloon Man in "Liliom"
Monsieur Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
He in "Odyssee"
Prince Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Antigonus in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Birthday Dances
Saint Matthew Passion
HE CHOREGRAPHED
"Nobody Sees"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2012
"Rely on Trust"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"I Giorni"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"Embrace"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
"el la"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2018
More about Florian Pohl
Conductor
Markus Lehtinen
Conductor
Markus Lehtinen absolvierte ein Klavier- und Dirigentenstudium an der Sibelius-Akademie in Helsinki. Zudem studierte er Komposition bei Aulis Sallinen und Einojuhani Rautavaara. 1988 wurde er an die Königliche Oper in Kopenhagen verpflichtet, der er bis 1993 angehörte. Er war Chefdirigent des Jyväskylä Sinfonieorchesters sowie Gastdirigent des Malmö Sinfonieorchesters. 1993 debütierte er an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, weitere Engagements in Deutschland waren unter anderem an der Deutschen Oper Berlin und an der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Seit 2004 hat Markus Lehtinen eine Professur an der Sibelius-Akademie.
Piano
Michal Bialk
Pianist
Michal Bialk was born in 1982 in Krakow. Intensive collaboration with Elza Kolodin, Matthias Kirschnereit, Jan Wijn and Oleg Maisenberg, as well as master courses with Jacques Rouvier (Perrigueux), Vera Gornostaeva (Paris), Piotr Anderszewski (Linz) and Krystian Zimerman (Basel) provide a core theme in his artistic development. Since his debut with the Krakow Philharmonic he has regularly given concerts in nearly all the countries of Europe, North Africa and Asia, including performances at, among others, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festivals, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Festival International de Colmar of Vladimir Spivakov. Furthermore, he is a permanent guest soloist of numerous orchestras in France, Italy, Germany and Turkey. A special place among his concert activities is his collaboration with John Neumeier of the Hamburg Ballett since 2006.
Michal Bialk is a first place recipient at international piano competitions in Poland, France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. He has on several occasions been distinguished for the best interpretation of Polish and Spanish music. Additionally he has received the "Prix d'Espoir" from the Pro Europa Foundation and the European Advancement Award for Young Artists at the cultural award presentation ceremony at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Orchestra
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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