Roberto Bolle is celebrating 30 years with Teatro alla Scala in the 2024-2025 season.
Quintessentially Italian Bolle has been posting his throwback images on his Instagram accounts.
Image by Luciano Romano (2006) from Bolle’s Instagram post.
Born in Piedmont, Italy, Bolle started dancing there then at Ballet School of Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He graduated into the company and was promoted to Principal in 1996 aged 21 and to Etoile in 2004. He was made Principal with the American Ballet Theatre in New York in 2009 in addition to his role with Teatro alla Scala until 2019.
Bolle has also danced worldwide with many other prestigious companies, including Ballet Opéra de Paris, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Mariinsky Theater and the Royal Ballet.
The biography page of Bolle’s website is worth a close look.
I had a pleasure to watch him perform Des Grieux in Manon with the Royal Ballet in Covent Garden, London, many moons ago, among other ballet. Since then.. did he age?