Biography of Roberto Bolle

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March 26, 1975 Roberto Bolle was born on March 26, 1975 in Casale Monferrato, province of Alessandria, mechanical father and stay-at-home mom. She has three siblings: one, Maurice, is his twin brother (who died prematurely in 2011 due to a cardiac arrest); Emanuela's sister will become manager of the future dancer. In a family without explicit irrepressible passion since Roberto artists for dance: attracted by the Ballets that sees on television includes that his biggest dream is to dance. Mom instead of giving little weight to the thing, encourages him and takes him at age six for a dance school in Vercelli. Later, when he was eleven years old, leads him to Milan for entrance exam to the authoritative School of La Scala. The young Roberto Bolle is predisposed to dance and has a natural talent: he was admitted to the school. To pursue his dream Roberto faces a tough choice for a child his age because it must leave family and friends. Every morning at 8 of begins workouts at the dance school and evening school courses follows, arriving at achieving scientific maturity. In quindci years comes the first big hit: the first to notice his talent is Rudolf Nureyev who at this time is to scale and chose him for the role of Tadzio in "death in Venice" by Flemming Flindt. Bubbles is too young and the theatre did not grant him permission, but this affair stops him and makes him even more determined to pursue its intent. At age 19 he joined the dance company and two years later, at the end of a performance of Romeo and Juliet, was appointed principal dancer by then-Director Elisabetta Terabust. Roberto Bolle becomes one of the youngest Principals in the Scala Theatre history. From that moment will be featured in classic and contemporary Ballets like "sleeping beauty," "Cinderella" and "Don Quixote" (Nureyev), "Swan Lake" (Nureyev-Dowell-Deane-Bourmeister), "Nutcracker" (Wright-Hynd-Deane-Bart), "La Bayadère" (Makarova), "Etudes" (Lander), "Excelsior" (Dell'Ara), "Giselle" (also in the new version of Sylvie Guillem), "Spectre de la rose", "La Sylphide", "Manon," "Romeo and Juliet" (MacMillan-Deane), "Onegin (Cranko)," Notre-Dame de Paris "(Petit)," the Merry Widow "(Hynd) , "Ondine", "Rendez-vous and Thaïs" (Ashton), "In the middle somewhat elevated" (Forsythe), "three Preludes" (Stevenson). In 1996 leaves the company to become a freelance dancer, a step that opens the doors to an international career. In 22 years, as a result of an unexpected injury of dancer protagonist, plays the Prince Siegfried at the Royal Albert Hall and is a big hit. Since then he is the most famous ballets and dances in the most famous theatres in the world: Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Tokyo Ballet are all at your feet. Danced with the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, the Stuttgart Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, the Berlin State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna State Opera Dresden, Munich State Opera, the Wiesbaden Festival, the 8th and 9th International Ballet Festival in Tokyo, the Tokyo Ballet, the Opera of Rome, the San Carlo in Naples , the Teatro Comunale in Florence. Derek Deane, the Director of the English National Ballet, creates for him two productions: "Swan Lake" and "Romeo and Juliet", both represented at the Royal Albert Hall in London. For the occurrence of the Cairo Opera House 10 anniversary, bubbles takes part to a spectacular "Aida" at the Giza pyramids and later at the Verona Arena, for a new version of the opera by Verdi broadcast worldwide. In October 2000 launches per season at Covent Garden in London with "Swan Lake" by Anthony Dowell and in November he was invited to the Bolshoi to celebrate the 75 anniversary of Maija Plisetskaja in the presence of President Putin. In June 2002, on the occasion of the Jubilee, dance at Buckingham Palace in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II: the event is filmed live by the BBC and broadcast in all Commonwealth countries. In October 2002 is the star at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow with Alessandra Ferri of Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet", during the tour of the Ballet of La Scala in Milan. In 2003, during the celebrations for the 300 years of Saint Petersburg, dance "Swan Lake", again with the Royal Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre. Next, for the return of "Dancing Faun" in Mazara del Vallo, dance the Aprés-midi d'un faune by Amedeo Amodio. For the season 2003/2004 will be awarded to Roberto Bolle the title of Etoile of La Scala. In February 2004 dance triumphantly at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan in "l'histoire de Manon". It appears then worldwide to San Remo Festival, dancing "the Firebird," a solo created for him by Renato Zanella. Invited at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg under the III International Ballet Festival, Roberto Bolle dancing the role of Des Grieux in "l'histoire de Manon" and is among the leaders in the final Gala dancing the pas de deux from the Ballet Excelsior and Summer of j. Kudelka. The day April 1, 2004 dancing in the presence of Pope John Paul II on Saint Peter's square, on the occasion of world youth day. In February 2006 dance at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, and performed a choreography created for him by Enzo Cosimi. Debuted at the Metropolitan in New York in June 2007 for the American farewell Alessandra Ferri, staged Manon and 23 June she performed in Romeo and Juliet: American critics decreed his success with enthusiastic reviews. Among its many partners include: Altynai Asylmuratova, Darcey Bussell, Lisa-Marie Cullum, Viviana Durante, Alessandra Ferri, Carla Fracci, Isabelle Guérin, Sylvie Guillem, Greta Hodgkinson, Margaret Illmann, Susan Jaffe, Lucia Lacarra, Agnès Letestu, Marianela Nuñez, Elena Pankova, Lisa Pavane, Darya Pavlenko, Laetitia Pujol, Tamara Rojo, Polina Semionova, Diana Vishneva, Zenaida Yanowsky, Svetlana Zakharova. Roberto Bolle is very engaged in social welfare: from 1999 's "Ambassador of goodwill" for UNICEF. The echo of the success brings too much critics called "the pride of Milan" and receives significant Awards: in 1995 he obtained both the "dance, dance" that the prize "Positano" as a youngster of Italian dance. In 1999, in the Promoteca del Campidoglio in Rome, he was awarded the "Gino Tani" Prize for helping with his business spread through body language and mind the values of dance and movement. The following year he was awarded in Piazza della Signoria in Florence "Galileo 2000" prize with the delivery of the "Pentagram". Receives the award "2001", the dance and Dance Award "2001" and the "Baroque Positano 2001" for its international activities. Italian television also realizes the great value of Roberto Bolle and its image so that is paid as a guest on many shows, including: Superquark, Sanremo, Quelli che il Calcio, Zelig, David di Donatello, Che tempo Che fa, dancing with the stars. Even the newspapers talk about him and some famous magazines dedicate extensive articles: Classic Voice, curtain, dance and dance, Who, Style. Becomes also testimonial Italian for several renowned brands. Among her most recent initiatives is the "Roberto Bolle & Friends", an extraordinary dance gala in aid of FAI, Italian Environment Fund.
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