The Bavarian State Ballet () is a professional ballet company in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 1988 by Konstanze Vernon as an independent company. The ballet had previously been part of the Bayerische Staatsoper. In a broader sense, Bavarian State Ballet is sometimes used for the Bavarian State Opera Ballet before 1988. Vernon was the director of the independent company for the first 10 years, succeeded by . From 2016 to 2022, Igor Zelensky was director of the ballet. In 2022, Laurent Hilaire took over the ballet. The company is formed by international dancers and has a repertory of more than 80 works from Romantic ballet to the 21st century. It is considered as a leading company in Europe.
Ensemble 2025/2026
Principal dancers NameNationalityTrainingOther companies (inc. guest performances)Yonah AcostaCuban National Ballet SchoolCuban National Ballet English National BalletMaria BaranovaHelsinki Dance Institute Hamburg Ballet SchoolHamburg Ballet Finnish National Ballet
Boston BalletJakob FeyferlikVienna Conservatory Vienna State Opera Ballet SchoolVienna State Ballet Dutch National BalletOsiel GouneoCuban National Ballet SchoolCuban National Ballet Norwegian National Ballet
Paris Opera BalletVioletta KellerMunich Conservatory Ballet AcademyFinnish National BalletJulian MacKayAmerican Ballet Theatre Royal Ballet School
Académie de Danse Princesse Grace, Monaco
Bolshoi Ballet AcademyBolshoi Ballet The Royal Ballet
Mikhailovsky Ballet
San Francisco BalletKsenia ShevtsovaVaganova Academy of Russian BalletStanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko TheatreLaurretta SummerscalesEnglish National Ballet SchoolEnglish National BalletElisabeth TonevBerlin State Ballet SchoolBerlin State Ballet Dutch National BalletJinhao ZhangEnglish National Ballet School Tongji UniversityEnglish National Ballet
Soloists
Carolina Bastos Clark Eselgroth Zhanna Gubanova Elvina Ibraimova Ariel Merkuri
Demi-Soloists
Lizi Avsajanishvili Maria Chiara Bono Severin Brunhuber Matteo Dilaghi Rhiannon Fairless Ana Gonçalves Yago Gonzaga Margarita Grechanaia Konstantin Ivkin Jeanette Kakareka Zachary Rogers Soren Sakadales Phoebe Schembri Robin Strona
Corps de Ballet
Łukasz Bałoniak Tommaso Beneventi Polina Bualova Alexey Dobikov Madeleine Dowdney Finn Falconer Dani Gibson Noah Hak Jasmine Henry Aurélien Hoguet Oscar Kempsey-Fagg Zarek King Nikita Kirbitov Mariia Malinina Pablo Martínez Marina Mata Gómez Polina Medvedeva Elisa Mestres Jasper Metcalfe Mikaela Milić Laura Orsi Capucine Perrot Viktor Shinichiro Prokofiev Lulu Rose Florian Ulrich Sollfrank Frederick Stuckwisch Chelsea Thronson Anastasiia Uzhanskaia Daniella Venter Chiara Vitali Margaret Whyte Sabrina Yap Character dancers
Zoltan Mano Beke Séverine Ferrolier Norbert Graf Stefan Moser
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