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.
Ballet
Principals
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
first soloist
Male First Soloist
Máté Bakó
Male principal, inactive
András Rónai
male first soloist
First Character Soloist (male)
Miklós Dávid Kerényi
first character soloist (male)
Soloists
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)
Grands sujets
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
Semi-soloists
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
Corps de Ballet
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
Étoiles
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
Chamber Artists of the Hungarian National Ballet
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)
Ballet Choreographers
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
Designers
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
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
Ballet Répétiteurs
Yevhenii Fomin
repetiteur
Éva Hajnal
ballet repetiteur
Elena Kovаčević
repetiteur
György Lázár
head repetiteur
Gyula Nyári
ballet repetiteur
Nataliya Pinelis
ballet repetiteur
Staff
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