Rosa Pierro

Rosa Pierro was born in Rome and trained at the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera as well as at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In the 2015/16 season, she was a member of the Youth Company of the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera. During this time, she performed in productions of the Vienna State Ballet, including Manuel Legris’ Le Corsaire, Jerome Robbins’ The Four Seasons, Pierre Lacotte’s La Sylphide, Harald Lander’s Études, Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake and Vesna Orlić’s Carmina Burana.

She subsequently joined the Hungarian and Polish National Ballets, appeared as Principal Guest Soloist with Ballet Ireland, and most recently danced as a Soloist with Aalto Ballett Essen. In the 2025/26 season, she joined the Vienna State Ballet as a Soloist.

Her repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty as well as in Ben Van Cauwenbergh’s Carmen/Boléro and Romeo and Juliet. She has also performed soloist parts in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling, Wayne McGregor’s Infra and Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow.
In addition, she has appeared as a guest artist at numerous international ballet galas.

Her awards include the Excellent Dancers Grand Prix of the Evgenij Polyakov Association, bronze medals at the International Ballet Competition in Korea, the WienWeltWettbewerb 2014, and the 5th International Ballet Competition in Beijing as well as first prize at VIBE 2016.

 

Performances with Rosa Pierro

Saison 2025-26
Sun
04 Jan
19:00—21:30
Alexei Ratmansky
Ballett Main Stage

with Sinthia Liz, Alessandro Frola, Masayu Kimoto, Rinaldo Venuti, Conductor: Paul Connelly

Kallirhoe

Cast on Sunday 4. January 2026

Kallirhoe

Dionysios

Mithridates

König von Babylon

Königin von Babylon

Polycharmos

Hermokrates

Musikalische Leitung

Choreografie

Musik

Aram Chatschaturjan

arrangiert von

Bühne & Kostüme

Umsetzung Kostüme

Sukie Kirk

Einstudierung

Ö1 U27
Wed
07 Jan
19:00—21:30
Alexei Ratmansky
Ballett Main Stage

with Sinthia Liz, Alessandro Frola, Masayu Kimoto, Rinaldo Venuti, Conductor: Paul Connelly

Kallirhoe

Cast on Wednesday 7. January 2026

Kallirhoe

Dionysios

Mithridates

König von Babylon

Königin von Babylon

Polycharmos

Hermokrates

Musikalische Leitung

Choreografie

Musik

Aram Chatschaturjan

arrangiert von

Bühne & Kostüme

Umsetzung Kostüme

Sukie Kirk

Einstudierung

Ö1 U27
Abo 12

Ticket information

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

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

26. November 2025Dialogues des Carmélites
07. Jänner 2026Kallirhoe (Ballett)
22. April 2026Der fliegende Holländer
06. Mai 2026Salome
03. Juni 2026Carmen

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