Hungary's only classical ballet company - this designation is an enormous responsibility. Nevertheless, with its colourful repertoire, illustrious roster of dancers and star choreographers, the Hungarian National Ballet proves season after season that it is up to the task. The ensemble revitalises traditional works and introduces the Hungarian audience to modern pieces, all performed to the world-class standards that Budapest's Opera is known for today.

Gergő Ármin Balázsi
male principal, Étoile of the 2022/2023 season


Maria Beck
Principal


Gergely Leblanc
principal, Étoile of the 2016/2017 season


Tatyjana Melnyik
female principal, Étoile of the 2019/2020 and the 2023/2024 seasons


Aliya Tanykpayeva
female principal, Étoile of the 2013/2014 and the 2017/2018 seasons


Dmitry Timofeev
principal, Étoile of the 2018/2019 season


Maria Yakovleva
female principal


Male First Soloist

Máté Bakó
Male principal, inactive


András Rónai
male first soloist


First Character Soloist (male)

Miklós Dávid Kerényi
first character soloist (male)


Female Soloists

Ildikó Boros
female soloist


Jessica Carulla Leon
female soloist


Lili Felméry
female soloist, Étoile of the 2015/2016 season


Claudia García Carriera
female soloist


Soobin Lee
female soloist


Adrienn Pap
female soloist


Ellina Pokhodnykh
female soloist


Dace Radina
female soloist, ballet master, artistic director (Hungarian National Ballet Institute)


Male Soloists

Iurii Kekalo
male soloist


Mikalai Radziush
male soloist


Louis Scrivener
male soloist, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2023/2024)


Grand sujets female

Diana Kosyreva
grand sujet


Miyu Takamori
grand sujet, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2022/2023)


Yuki Wakabayashi
grand sujet


Grand sujets male

Gaetano Cottonaro
grand sujet


Motomi Kiyota
grand sujet


Balázs Majoros
grand sujet, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2019/2020)


Taran Dumitru
grand sujet


Carlos Taravillo Mahillo
grand sujet


Grand sujets character

Alekszandr Komarov guest
grand sujet (character), guest artist


Female Semi-soloists

Nutsa Chekurashvili
female semi-soloist


Olga Chernakova
female semi-soloist, ballet master


Andrea Erdős
female semi-soloist


Lea Földi
female semi-soloist, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2018/2019)


Zsófia Gyarmati
female semi-soloist, ballet master


Artemisz Pisla
female semi-soloist


Yuliya Radziush
female semi-soloist, pilates instructor


Elena Sharipova
female semi-soloist


Enikő Somorjai
female semi-soloist, inactive


Kristina Starostina
female semi-soloist


Male Semi-soloists

Yago Guerra
semi-soloist


Boris Myasnikov
male semi-soloist


Takaaki Okajima
male semi-soloist


Valerio Palumbo
male semi-soloist


Attila Szakács
male semi-soloist, ballet master


András Szegő
male semi-soloist


Boris Zhurilov
semi-soloist


Quadrille 2.

Yuiko Adachi
corps de ballet


Remedios Agustín Castaño
corps de ballet


Matilde Noemi Barbaglia
corps de ballet


Raffaello Barbieri
corps de ballet


Federico Berardi
corps de ballet


Timofiy Bykovets
corps de ballet


Mattheus Bäckström
corps de ballet


Nika Crnić
corps de ballet


Ashlee Crowe
corps de ballet


Vivien Csokán
corps de ballet, inactive


Cecilia Dosio
corps de ballet


Inès Furuhashi-Huber
corps de ballet


Rita Hangya
corps de ballet


Viachaslau Hnedchyk
corps de ballet


Adrienn Horányi
corps de ballet


Kateryna Horiaieva
corps de ballet


Judit Horváth-Varga
corps de ballet, inactive


Ágnes Kelemen
corps de ballet


Barbara Kerényi
corps de ballet


Erika Kolotova
corps de ballet


Anastasiia Konstantinova
corps de ballet


Maksym Kovtun
corps de ballet


Anna Krupp
corps de ballet


Léo Lecarpentier
corps de ballet


Jingxuan Li
corps de ballet


Auguste Marmus
corps de ballet


Luca Massara
corps de ballet


Christian Mathot
corps de ballet


Vlagyiszlav Melnyik
corps de ballet


Dávid Molnár
corps de ballet


Kristóf Morvai
corps de ballet


Ganna Muromtseva
corps de ballet


Adema Omarova
corps de ballet


Alberto Ortega de Pablos
corps de ballet


Pavel Ostapenko
corps de ballet


Stefanida Ovcharenko
corps de ballet


Anita Tiffany Pesel
corps de ballet


Lilla Purszki
corps de ballet, inactive


Rachel Quintao
corps de ballet


Ágnes Riedl
corps de ballet


Viktória Barbara Rohonczi
corps de ballet, inactive


Lisa Roselli
corps de ballet


Francesco Sardella
corps de ballet


Aglaja Sawatzki
corps de ballet


Olha Skrypchenko
corps de ballet


Théa Solomon
corps de ballet


Nadezhda Sorokina
corps de ballet


Max Steele
corps de ballet


Liudmila Taran
corps de ballet


Kateryna Tarasova
corps de ballet, character dance


Vince Topolánszky
corps de ballet


Riku Yamamoto
corps de ballet


Dmitry Zhukov
corps de ballet


Quadrille 1.

Csilla Arany
corps de ballet


Edit Darab-Fehér
corps de ballet


Rubina Ellenrieder
corps de ballet


Anna Fülöp
corps de ballet


Dmitrij Taraszovics Kirejko
corps de ballet, ballet master


Kóbor Demeter
corps de ballet


István Kohári
corps de ballet, balletmaster


Noel Ágoston Kovács
corps de ballet


Kseniia Kulikova
corps de ballet


Gábor Lajti
corps de ballet


Eszter Lovisek
corps de ballet


Natsuna Oya
corps de ballet


Zsuzsanna Papp
corps de ballet


Eszter Pőcze
corps de ballet, inactive


Réka Sári
corps de ballet


Adrienn Szekeres
corps de ballet


Dóra Szelényi
corps de ballet


Roland Vékes
corps de ballet


Ricardo Vila M.
corps de ballet


Étoile of the 2012/2013 and 2014/2015 seasons

Zoltán Oláh
male first soloist, Étoile of the 2012/2013 and 2014/2015 seasons, inactive


Étoile of the 2013/2014 and the 2017/2018 seasons

Aliya Tanykpayeva
female principal, Étoile of the 2013/2014 and the 2017/2018 seasons


Étoile of the 2015/2016 season

Lili Felméry
female soloist, Étoile of the 2015/2016 season


Étoile of the 2016/2017 season

Gergely Leblanc
principal, Étoile of the 2016/2017 season


Étoile of the 2018/2019 season

Dmitry Timofeev
principal, Étoile of the 2018/2019 season


Étoile of the 2019/2020 and the 2023/2024 season

Tatyjana Melnyik
female principal, Étoile of the 2019/2020 and the 2023/2024 seasons


Étoile of the 2022/2023 season

Gergő Ármin Balázsi
male principal, Étoile of the 2022/2023 season


Lea Földi
female semi-soloist, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2018/2019)


Balázs Majoros
grand sujet, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2019/2020)


Miyu Takamori
grand sujet, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2022/2023)


Louis Scrivener
male soloist, Chamber Artist of the Hungarian National Ballet (2023/2024)


Frederick Ashton Sir
choreographer


George Balanchine
Choreographer


Dóra Barta
choreographer


Gai Behar
Co-Creator


Olga Chernakova
female semi-soloist, ballet master


John Cranko
choreographer


Wayne Eagling
choreographer


Alexander Ekman
ballet master, choreographer


Sharon Eyal
Creator


William Forsythe
Choreographer, Set and lighting designer


Gábor Horváth
choreographer


Jiří Kylián
choreographer, set- and lighting designer


Dmitrij Taraszovics Kirejko
corps de ballet, ballet master


Katalin Kőszegi
ballet master, assistant, ballet dancer


Dénes Kovács
Dancer, Tap and folk dance instructor


Árpád Könczei
choreographer, composer


Leonid Lavrovsky
Choreographer


Jenő Lőcsei
Choreographer


András Lukács
Choreographer


Sir Kenneth MacMillan
choreographer


Wayne McGregor
choreographer


Michael Messerer
ballet master, choreographer


Gábor Mihályi
Choreographer


Albert Mirzoyan
ballet master, chief artistic advisor


Kornélia Mráz
ballet master


András Nádasdy
Choreographer


Tímea Papp
Choreographer


Paul Lightfoot
Choreographer


Marius Petipa
choreographer


Irina Prokofieva
ballet master


Dace Radina
female soloist, ballet master, artistic director (Hungarian National Ballet Institute)


Karina Sarkissova
choreographer


László Seregi
ballet dancer, choreographer, Eternal Member, Master Artist


Sol León
Choreographer


Tamás Solymosi
ballet dancer, ballet director, ballet master, choreographer


Kateryna Tarasova
corps de ballet, character dance


Thierry Malandain
Choreographer


Lajos Péter Túri
Choreographer


Vasily Vainonen
Choreographer


Bertalan Vári
Choreographer


László Velekei
ballet master, choreographer


Marianna Venekei
ballet teacher, company répétiteur, choreographer


Adrienn Vetési
Modern dance instructor, choreographer


Péter Bárány
animation designer


Erik Berglund
lighting designer


Imelda Jeremias Bianca
costume designer


Joost Biegelaar
lighting designer


Steen Bjarke
lighting designer


Joop Caboort
set and costume designer


Balázs Csontos
lighting designer


Balázs Csontos
lighting designer


Donna Raphael
costume supervisor


Gábor Forray
head set designer, Eternal Member


Nicholas Georgiadis
set and costume designer


Jan Hofstra
lighting designer


Zoltán Katonka
lighting designer


Lóránt Kézdy
set designer


Károly Lendvai
lighting designer


Peter Lundin
lighting designer


Maren Fischer
costume designer


Tivadar Márk
head costume designer, Eternal Member


Róbert Menczel
set designer


Thomas Mika
set and costume designer


Ready By Wednesday
projected scenery


Nóra Rományi
costume designer


István Rózsa
set designer


Ruud Lutgens
assistant set and costume designer


Judit Schäffer
costume designer


Beáta Vavrinecz
set designer


Rita Velich
costume designer


Joke Visser
costume designer


Dalma Závodszky
costume designer


Ballet Masters

Cristina Balaban
first ballet master


István Kohári
corps de ballet, balletmaster


Albert Mirzoyan
ballet master, chief artistic advisor


Irina Prokofieva
ballet master


Dace Radina
female soloist, ballet master, artistic director (Hungarian National Ballet Institute)


Attila Szakács
male semi-soloist, ballet master


György Szirb
ballet master


Marianna Venekei
ballet teacher, company répétiteur, choreographer


Nataliia Yakushkina
ballet master


Guest Ballet Masters

Mária Aradi
ballet master


Imre Dózsa
ballet dancer, ballet teacher, company répétiteur, Master Artist, Eternal Member


Ildikó Kaszás
ballet dancer, company répétiteur, Eternal Member


Ildikó Pongor
ballet dancer, ballet teacher, company répétiteur, Eternal Member, Master Artist


Yevhenii Fomin
repetiteur


Éva Hajnal
ballet repetiteur


Elena Kovаčević
repetiteur


György Lázár
head repetiteur


Gyula Nyári
ballet repetiteur


Nataliya Pinelis
ballet repetiteur


Ballet Masseurs

István Bolesza
Ballet Masseur


Milán Debreczeni
Ballet Masseur


Bertalan Gesztelyi Nagy
Ballet Masseur


Bence Szabó
Ballet Masseur


Ballet Rehabilitation Coach

Éva Csere
Physiotherapist (Dévény Method)


Audio and Video Technicians

György Leányvári
Audio Technician


Tibor Pataky
Audio Technician


Zoltán Pintér
Video Technician


Attila Szabó-Gamos
Video Technician