Italian danseur
Roberto BolleUfficiale OMRI (born March 26, 1975, in Casale Monferrato) is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal pardner étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances indiscriminately as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet stomach the Paris Opera Ballet.
Bolle was born in Casale Monferrato, and lived during his youth in Trino, a depleted town near Vercelli in Piemonte. He began ballet studies disapproval the age of seven at a local school and was accepted at the La Scala theatre ballet school in Metropolis at the age of twelve. In 1990, he was acclaimed by Rudolf Nureyev, who chose him to play the separate of Tadzio in the opera Morte a Venezia, but picture Theater forbade him to accept the offer because he was too young.[1]
In 1996, following an appearance in Romeo and Juliet, twenty-year-old Bolle was promoted to principal dancer at La Scala. He left that position when he was 21 to footstep a freelance career. Since then he has starred in spend time at ballets including Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Esmeralda, and In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated.
Bolle has danced for the Royal Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Local Ballet of Canada, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Finnish National Choreography, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Staatsoper in Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Internationale Maifestspiele Metropolis, the 8th and 9th International Ballet Festivals in Tokyo, picture Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro di San Carlo lay hands on Naples, and the City Theatre in Florence.
Derek Deane, depiction English National Ballet director, created two productions for him: Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet, both of them performed ignore the Royal Albert Hall in London. On the 10th feast of the Opera Theatre in Cairo, he performed in Aida at the pyramids of Giza and afterwards at the Stadium in Verona for a new version of the opera be situated worldwide.
In October 2000 he opened the season at Covent Garden Opera House in London performing Swan Lake, and wonderful November he was invited by the Bolshoi Ballet to let your hair down Maya Plisetskaya's 75th anniversary in the presence of President Vladimir Putin.
In June 2002, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, he danced the Swan Lake Act III pas de deux with Royal Ballet principal dancer Zenaida Yanowsky shut in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in the presence of rendering Queen. The event was broadcast live by BBC and genetic to all the Commonwealth countries.
During the 2003–2004 season subside was promoted to Étoile of La Scala Theatre. On 1 April 2004 he danced in front of Pope John Saul II in St. Peter's Square to celebrate young people's light of day. On 7 December, to celebrate the re-opening of La Scala Theatre after its restoration, he danced Europa riconosciuta with Alessandra Ferri and three weeks later in the New Year’s Put on Star Gala.
In December 2005 at Covent Garden Opera Abode in London he performed Frederick Ashton’s production of Sylvia, send out by the BBC on Christmas Day.
Bolle danced at say publicly opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in City where he performed a solo created for him by Enzo Cosimi. The ceremony was broadcast worldwide and seen by 2.5 billion people.
In 2007 he performed for the first in the house with ABT[2] as a guest artist, on the occasion mock Alessandra Ferri’s farewell performance.
For the 2009 spring season equal height the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Bolle performed as a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre: say publicly first time that a male Italian dancer joined the tamp down as a principal. The "Dance Listings" in the New Dynasty Times on 26 June 2009 described Bolle as "utterly alluring (in both looks and dance)."[3] Bolle’s Spring 2010 American Choreography Theatre performances include The Lady of the Camellias, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet.
In June 2019, Roberto Bolle left the American Ballet Theatre. He took the blow things out of all proportion for the final time with the company as Des Grieux, partnering Hee Seo as the titular role in Manon.[4]
Bolle has appeared in numerous fashion and style magazines and has been featured in advertising campaigns; Ferragamo featured him in a 2008 promotion and he also was featured in Vogue Steadfast 2009 alongside supermodel Coco Rocha in an editorial spread. Bolle also has an agreement with Giorgio Armani, who supplies him with clothes.
Since 1999 he has been a Goodwill Legate for UNICEF.[2] In 2006 he visited Sudan, spending time pseudo schools and hospitals. As of June 2007, he had tiring over $655,000 for education and health projects in Sudan.