Hamburg Ballet at the HAMBURG PORT ANNIVERSARY | Elbe in Concert
Sat, May 10, 2025, 9.00 pm
Cast
Anita Ferreira
Corps de Ballet
Anita Ferreira
BORN
18.6.200 in Benedita. Portuguese
EDUCATION
Escola Artística de Dança do Conservatório Nacional
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Gigi Hyatt, Janusz Mazon, Konstantin Tselikov, Fernando Duarte, Hiroko Nishikawa, Annarella Sanchez
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2022
REPERTORY
Solos in
Préludes CV
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Performances
Futaba Ishizaki
Soloist
Futaba Ishizaki
BORN
28.9.1993 in Tokyo. Japanese
EDUCATION
Yamaji Rumiko Ballet School (Tokio)
Ballettschule des Hamburg Ballett
MAIN TEACHERS
Rumiko Yamaji, Akiko Sano, Carolina Borrajo, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENTS
Hamburg Ballet 2011-2017
Houston Ballet 2016/2017
Hungarian National Ballet 2017-2020
Ballett am Rhein 2020-2024
Hamburg Ballet since 2024
CREATIONS IN HAMBURG
A figure from the romantic novels Tatiana loves to read in "Tatiana" (John Neumeier)
IN DUSSELDORF
Giselle in "Giselle" (Demis Volpi)
A women in "From time to time" (John Neumeier)
Emilie in "Baal" (Aszure Barton)
Coppélia in "CoppéliaX Machina" (Hélène Blackburn)
and solos in
Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Demis Volpi)
The thing with feathers (Demis Volpi)
A kiss to the world (Dominique Dumias)
REPERTORY IN BUDAPEST
Tamara in "Chroma" (Wayne McGregor)
Magda in "Merry Widow" (Ronald Hynd)
and solos in
Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)
Bedroom Folk(Sharon Eyal)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
Etudes (Harald Lander)
5 Tangos (Hans Van Mannen)
Episode 31 (Alexander Ekman)
Troy Game (Robert North)
The Nutcracker (Wayne Eagling)
REPERTORY IN DUSSELDORF
Carmen in "Carmen" (Roland Petit)
The Novice in "The Cage" (Jerome Robbins)
The Pupil in "The Lesson" (Flemming Flindt)
The Kantorka in "Krabat" (Demis Volpi)
Gina in "Geschlossene Spiele" (Demis Volpi)
The Maid in "The Nutcracker" (Demis Volpi)
and solos in
Allure (Demis Volpi)
Winter (Demis Volpi)
Aus ihrer Zeit (Demis Volpi)
Little Monsters (Demis Volpi)
Elegie (Demis Volpi)
Ebony Concerto (Demis Volpi)
A simple piece (Demis Volpi)
One and others (Demis Volpi)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
Rubies (George Balanchine)
Artifact II (William Forsythe)
Enemy in the Figure (William Forsythe)
REPERTORY IN HAMBURG
Quadrille in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Helena in "Romeo and Juliet"
Zulma in "Giselle"
The foreign Princess in "A Cinderella Story"
Louise, Pas de huit and The Beautiful Girl from Granada in "The Nutcracker"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
Pas de six in "Napoli" (Auguste Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Blanche Ingram in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Petruschka Variations
La Vivandière (Pierre Lacotte after Arthur Saint-Léon)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Variations for Two Couples (Hans van Manen)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)
GUESTING
Nijinsky Gala XLVII (Hamburg 2022)
Internationale Ballett-TanzGala (Augusburg 2024)
AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2009
The International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize 2015
Performances
Anna Laudere
Principal
Anna Laudere
BORN
19.2.83 in Sigulda. Latvian
EDUCATION
Riga Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Valentins Blinovs, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen, Irina Jacobson, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2001, promoted Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2011
CREATIONS
The Maiden-who-never-laughs in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Calliope in "Orpheus"
The Friend (Isadora Duncan) in "Duse"
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina in "Anna Karenina"
A Widow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Epilogue
A Foreign Sound (Thiago Bordin)
At Asyl-Um (Luva-Andrea Tessarini)
Anima (Edvin Revazov)
REPERTORY
Lady Capulet and Rosalind in "Romeo and Juliet"
Cinderella, Cinderella's Mother, A Stepsister and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Eleonora Bereda in "Nijinsky"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise and La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Giselle and Myrtha in "Giselle"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
Solveig and Aase in "Peer Gynt"
Eurydice in "Orphée et Eurydice"
La Barbarina and Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
The Queen and The Rose in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Penelope in *Odyssey"
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Mauve and in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Wife and the Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Queen Hermione in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Blanche Ingram in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio I-VI (she danced this role for the premiere)
Verklungene Feste
Saint Matthew Passion
Requiem
Vaslav
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Adagietto
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Messias
Turangalîla
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)
GUESTING
Munich (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2008
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2018
Latvian Excellence Award in Culture 2019
The Russian-Italian Prize Benois-Massine 2019
Order of the Three Stars – Highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia
Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation Grant: "Yondering Exchange" – School of the Hamburg Ballet and Canada's National Ballet School (1999-2000)
Find further information about Anna Laudere here.
Performances
Ida Stempelmann
Corps de Ballet
Ida Stempelmann
BORN
29.5.2000 in Dusseldorf. German/Finn
EDUCATION
Ballet School Kaiserswerth
Royal Ballet School Antwerp
MAIN TEACHERS
Katrin Hansen, Kimmy Lauwens, Kevin Durwael, Genevieve Van Quaquebeke, Kevin Haigen, Raymond Hilbert
ENGAGEMENTS
National Youth Ballet 2018
Hamburg Ballet starting 2020/2021
CREATIONS
solos in
Beethoven Project II
The Invisibles (with the National Youth Ballet)
REPERTORY
Nanina in "Lady of the Camellias"
One of the Big Swan in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Bronislava Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Eurycleia in "Odyssey"
Bertha Mason in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Find further information about Ida Stempelmann here.
Performances
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
Epilogue
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"
Alexei Karenin and 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)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)
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
Find further information about Christopher Evans here.
Performances
Louis Musin
Soloist
Louis Musin
BORN
20.4.2002 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Belgian/Brazilian
EDUCATION
Dance Area (Geneva)
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Fernanda Diniz, Nicolas Musin, Gigi Hyatt, Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Christian Schön, Konstantin Tselikov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2021, Soloist since 2023
CREATIONS
A young Soldier in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solo in
Epilogue
REPERTORY
A young Aschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Louis in "Liliom"
Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
A Manon Lescaut's Admirer in "Lady of the Camellias"
Count Alexander and The Speaker in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"
A Thorn Creature in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Stanislav Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Telemachos in "Odyssey"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Ghost Light
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)
AWARD
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2025
Performances
Matias Oberlin
Principal
Matias Oberlin
BORN
27.4.96 in Santa Fe, Argentina. Argentinian/German
EDUCATION
Seminario Provincial de Ballet – Santa Fe, Argentina
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Elizabeth Sture, Christian Schön, Janusz Mazon, Kevin Haigen, Gigi Hyatt
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2014, Soloist in 2018, Principal since 2023
CREATIONS
Beethoven Project
Ghost Light
Epilogue
Pain Pushed me Forward (Braulio Alvarez)
REPERTORY
Lord Capulet and Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Gaston Rieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
The King in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Drosselmeier und Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Count Alexander in "Illusion: like Swan Lake"
Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Fenge in "Hamlet 21"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
The Thorn, Cupid's Blessing, a Spanish Prince and an Egyptian Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Balloon Man in "Liliom"
Serge Diaghilev and Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Alexei Karenin and Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Mr. Brocklehurst in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Beethoven Project I
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
Variations for Two Couples (Hans van Manen)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Flash"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
AWARD
Scholarship from the "Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation" (2011-2013)
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2019
Find further information about Matias Oberlin here.
