Albano, Antonella

Antonella Albano Photos

Antonella Albano Biography

Notable: Born1982; La Scala Ballet 

Antonella Albano was born in Bari, in 1982. She studied the Vaganova method with his ballet-teacher Silvia Humaila. In 1998 she was admitted to La Scala Theatre Ballet School and she obtained a scholarship for the Academie Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo. In 1999 she won gold medal of the Eurocity città di Livorno and in September 2006, in Positano she was awarded by Alberto Testa with the desirable prize Premio Leonide Massine. In 2000 she joined the La Scala ballet company in Milan, where in 2009, with the director Makhar Vaziev, she was promoted to Solist.

Repertoire includes:

• Who Cares? choreography by George Balanchine
• Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin
• Effy in La Sylphide of Pierre Lacotte
• Odette/Odile in Vladimir Bourmeister’s Swan Lake
• Nikiya in Natalia Makharova’s La Bayadere
• Swanilda in Coppelia by Derek Deane
• The Pas de Deux Errante in Mediterranea choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti
• The pas de deux of Hey you in Roland Petit’s Pink Floyd Ballet
• The Principal Couple in Voluntaires by Glen Tetley
• The Pas de Deux by A. Macello in Jiri Kyliàn’s Bella Figura
• Title role in Giselle choreography by Yvette Chauviré
• Kitri in Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixotte
• Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet