Mara Galeazzi

Mara Galeazzi (born 1973) is a former principal dancer with The Royal Ballet in London, England.

Galeazzi was born in Chiari (Brescia), Italy and studied at "La Scala", Milan, where she earned her diploma with honors. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1992 and was promoted to First Artist in 1995, Soloist at the end of the 1997/98 Season and Principal in September 2003. She retired from the Royal Ballet in June 2013. In addition to her work with the Royal Ballet, Galeazzi frequently appeared as a guest artist with other ballet companies around the world including the Stuttgart Ballet, the Scottish Ballet. She has also performed with such notable dancers as Irek Mukhamedov, Carlos Acosta, and Tetsuya Kumakawa. She performed with the Opera di Roma the new production of Le Corsaire and Carla Fracci Giselle .

Within the classical repertory, Galeazzi has performed such roles as the title role in Fokine's The Firebird, the Sugarplum Fairy in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the title role in Adolphe Adam's Giselle, Gamzatti in Natalia Makarova’s production of La Bayadère, the title role in Edouard Deldevez's Paquita, and the Bluebird in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the role of Anastasia, the role of Manon to name just a few. and Paquita Grand Pas.

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