Tatiana
Melnik

Benois de la Danse nominee

Graduated from the Perm State Choreographic College (2006). She worked in the Russian Ballet Company under the direction of Vyacheslav Gordeev (2006-2013) and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Musical Theater (2013–2015). She has been a soloist of the Hungarian State Opera Ballet since 2015. The etoile of the 2019/2020 and 2022/2024 seasons.

She performed the title roles in the ballets Giselle (M. Petipa), Cinderella (F. Ashton), Manon (K. Macmillan), Snow Maiden (V. Burmeister), Romeo and Juliet (L. Serega), Paquita (M. Petipa); and also: Odette/Odile (Swan Lake by Rudy van Danzig Tura Van Schaik), Princess Maria (The Nutcracker by Wayne Eagling and Tamasha Solimosi), Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa), Kitri (Don Quixote by Marius Petipa), Stefania and Maria Evenings (Mayerling), Nikiya (La Bayadère), Lisa (La Fille mal gardée), Tatiana (Onegin), Maria (The Nutcracker by V. Vainonen). Her repertoire also includes choreography by Hans Van Manen, Harald Lander, Jiri Kilian, William Forsyth, George Balanchine.

The Third prize at the Arabesque International Ballet Competition (2012). The Second prize at the Moscow International Ballet Competition (2013).

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