Ambra Vallo

Ambra Vallo (* in Naples ) is an Italian classical ballet dancer . She is currently a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet .

Act

Vallo was trained at the Royal Ballet School of Flanders. Her debut was at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma . At seventeen she was invited as a guest by Vladimir Vasilyev .

She was the soloist of the "Royal Opera of Wallonia" and after the "Royal Ballet of Flanders" she was senior soloist of the English National Ballet from 1993 . In 1995 she received personal congratulations from Lady Diana as Juliet at the Royal Festival Hall .

Since 2001 she has been the most famous principal of the Birmingham Royal Ballet .

Awards

She garnered critical acclaim worldwide by participating in several international competitions. She won first prize at the “International Grand Prix Luxembourg” and the silver medal at Houlgate , France. At Debrett's people of today , she is included among the UK's thousand most famous personalities.

In Italy she won prizes at “Danza e danza” (Best Dancer, 2004), Positano (Critics' Prize 1991 and 2002) and Rieti (Gold Medal). In 2009, together with Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluigi Aponte , she won the “Excellence in the Neapolitan World” award from President Silvio Berlusconi at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .

Roles and repertoire

Roles included: Bintley Titania (The Shakespeare Suite), "Annunciation" (The Protecting Veil), Wild Girl (Beauty and the Beast), Kim Brandstrup's Pimpinella ( Pulcinella ), Lila Yorker Sanctum, Stanton Welch Pulver and Luciano Cannito's Te voglio bene assaje .

Her most important repertoires: Giselle (title role), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Swan Lake (Odette / Odile), The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy), Coppélia (Swanilda) Don Quixote (Kitri), La fille mal gardée (Lise), Cinderella (title role ), Bournonvilles (title role ), Le Corsaire , Diana and Aktäon Pas de deux Paquita , Bajadere , Études (leading role), Graduation Ball , Elite Syncopations ( Calliope Rag ), Solitaire (Polka Girl), Die Zwei Tauben (Young Girl), Voices of Spring , Der Gang zum Paradise Garden , Enigma Variations (Dorabella), Apollo (Polyhymnia), Symphonic Variations , Serenade , Symphony in Three Movements , The Four Temperaments (Sanguine Variation), Concerto Barocco , Square Dance , Tschaikowsky Pas de deux, Tarantella , Western Symphony , Bintley's Far The Mistress of Thornhill (Bathsheba), Edward II (Isabella), Arthur (Guinevere), Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Hobson's Choice (Vickey Hobson, Salvation Army), Carmina burana (Lover Girl), Choros , Dance H ouse , Die Jahreszeiten ('Spring'), Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and van Manen's Five Tangos .

Web links

• The Ballerina Gallery's page for Ambra Vallo
• Biography on the site of Royal Ballet, Birmingham
• Ambra Vallo as Juliet on You Tube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LADY DIANA APPLAUDE GIULIETTA . Ricerca.repubblica.it. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
2. ↑ Berlusconi, fischi e Applausi tra Napoli e Viareggio . Repubblica.it. Retrieved December 18, 2010.