The Hungarian State Opera, the Hungarian National Ballet Institute, the Foundation for Ballet Students of the Hungarian State Opera, with the support of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme, will organize a large-scale international event this summer.

 

Venue HQ: ActiCity | Veszprém

Accomodation and Leisure HQ: Hunguest Hotel BÁL Resort | Balatonalmádi

President

source: László Emmer | OPERA

Tamás Solymosi | Hungarian State Opera, Founder of the Hungarian National Ballet Institute, Director of Hungarian National Ballet, ballet master, choreographer. He made guest appearances with the companies of the Miami, Chicago and Osaka Ballet, has appeared as a principal at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Dutch National Ballet, the Semperoper Dresden and the ballet company of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Audiences have also had the chance to see him as a guest soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and in the opera houses of Munich, Berlin as well as in Santiago de Chile.

Members

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Agnese Andersone | Latvia, Head of the Riga Ballet School, choreographer, soloist in ballet company of Riga between 1996-2015, choreographer

source: János Kummer | OPERA

Mária Aradi | Hungarian State Opera, Ballet master, Dutch National Ballet (Het Nationale Ballet), Amsterdam – Soloist, then head ballet master (1972-2005). Founder of the Foundation for Opera Ballet Students (2019)

source: Attila Nagy | OPERA

Gergő Ármin Balázsi | Hungarian State Opera 2014, Soloist, Hungarian Dance Academy 2005-2014, Étolie for the 2022-2023 season

source: Valter Berecz | OPERA

Imre Dózsa | Hungarian State Opera, Kossuth Prize and Ferenc Liszt Award-winning Hungarian dancer, ballet master, ballet and theatre director, university professor, rector emeritus of Hungarian Dance Academy. Ballet dancer, company répétiteur, Master Artist, Eternal Member, member of the board of the Foundation for Opera Ballet Students

source: Kateryna Kukhar

Kateryna Kukhar | National Artist of Ukraine, Primaballerina of the National Opera of Ukraine, director of the KSBC - Kyiv State Ballet College, international ballet judge

source: Attila Nagy | OPERA

Gergely Leblanc | Hungarian State Opera 2011- Principal, Gyula Harangozó and Junior Prima Award-winning Hungarian balletdancer, artist of merit, Étolie for the 2016-2017 season

source: Attila Nagy | OPERA

Tatiana Melnik | Hungarian State Opera 2015 – Soloist and Principal, Etolie for the 2019-2020 season, Perm Ballet Academy (2006), Russian National Ballet Theatre (2006-2013)

source: János Kummer | OPERA

Albert Mirzoyan | Hungarian State Opera 2020, ballet master, chief artistic advisor, Vaganova Ballet Academy, St. Petersburg, (1973-1975, 1994-1998), ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre (1995-2001) Vaganova Ballet Academy (1993-2006) and the Wiener Staatsoper (2008-2020)

source: Artúr Ekler | Salt Comm.

Viktoria Podolskaya | Founder and Director of the Victoria Art and Sport Association, Ballet master in Veszprém, Baku Ballet Academy, Azerbaijan State Opera, National Pedagogical Drahomanov University in Kyiv

source: Attila Nagy | OPERA

Ildikó Pongor | Hungarian State Opera, Kossuth Prize and Ferenc Liszt Award-winning Hungarian dancer, artist of merit and excellence. Ballet dancer, company répétiteur, Master Artist, Eternal Member, member of the board of the Foundation for Opera Ballet Students