Margarita Fernandes

Margarita Fernandes, born in Portugal, began her ballet training at the age of eight at the Conservatório Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sanchez in Leiria, which follows the Cuban methodology. She regularly received further education from guest teachers and renowned dancers of the Vaganova and French schools, including Julio Bocca, Misha Tchoupakov, David Makhateli and Yannick Boquin. From 2020, she worked daily with Maina Gielgud on the 19th- and 20th-century classical repertoire, performing Gielgud’s stagings of La Sylphide (Act II) as well as full-length productions of Don Quixote, Giselle, and Swan Lake.

In the 2021/22 season, at the age of only 16, she joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a Demi-Soloist. In 2024, she was promoted to Soloist. Beginning with the 2025/26 season, she will join the Vienna State Ballet as a Soloist.

Her repertoire includes major roles such as Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin, Juliet in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, the title role and Effie in Pierre Lacotte’s La Sylphide, Swanilda in Roland Petit’s Coppélia, Helena in John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ophelia in Alexei Ratmansky’s Tchaikovsky Overtures, the title role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Clementine in Wheeldon’s Cinderella. She has also performed works by George Balanchine, Ray Barra, Patrice Bart, David Dawson, Nacho Duato, Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, Angelin Preljocaj and Peter Wright, among others.

Margarita Fernandes has won numerous prizes at international ballet competitions, including first prize (2018) and the Hope Award (2017) at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), first prize at Domenico Modugno in Lecce, Italy (2017) and second prize at the South African International Ballet Competition (2018).

Performances with Margarita Fernandes

Saison 2025-26
Thu
18 Sep
20:00—22:15
Ballett Main Stage
Giselle

Cast on Thursday 18. September 2025

Herzog Albrecht

Hilarion, ein Wildhüter

Berthe, eine Bäuerin, Giselles Mutter

Wilfrid, Albrechts Freund

Der Herzog von Kurland

Bathilde, seine Tochter, Albrechts Verlobte

Bauern-Pas de quatre

Myrtha, Königin der Wilis

Musikalische Leitung

Choreografie und Inszenierung

Musik

Adolphe Adam

mit einer Einlage von

Friedrich Burgmüller

Libretto

Théophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges & Jean Coralli nach Heinrich Heine

Coaching

Einstudierung

Giuseppe Alosa

Marcelo Gomes
Ö1 U27
Tue
23 Sep
20:00—22:15
Ballett Main Stage
Giselle

Cast on Tuesday 23. September 2025

Herzog Albrecht

Hilarion, ein Wildhüter

Berthe, eine Bäuerin, Giselles Mutter

Wilfrid, Albrechts Freund

Der Herzog von Kurland

Bathilde, seine Tochter, Albrechts Verlobte

Bauern-Pas de quatre

Myrtha, Königin der Wilis

Musikalische Leitung

Choreografie und Inszenierung

Musik

Adolphe Adam

mit einer Einlage von

Friedrich Burgmüller

Libretto

Théophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges & Jean Coralli nach Heinrich Heine

Coaching

Einstudierung

Giuseppe Alosa

Marcelo Gomes
Ö1 U27
Abo 3

Ticket information

Saison 2024/2025

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

22. Oktober 2024: FIN DE PARTIE
14. Jänner 2025: BALLETT: SHIFTING SYMMETRIES
11. Februar 2025: IL TROVATORE
22. April 2025: ARABELLA
03. Juni 2025: CARMEN
 

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