Tommaso Beneventi

corps de ballet

Tommaso was born in Rome, Italy, where he began his ballet training at the age of nine at the Scuola di Danza del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. At the age of eleven he was accepted at the Ecole de Danse de l'Opéra National de Paris. In 2015, he received a full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet School, where he completed his training and entered the trainee programme in 2017. From September 2018 to April 2019, he was a member of the Joffrey Studio Company (Junior Company of the Joffrey Ballet) in Chicago. In May 2019, Tommaso joined Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. Other performances include the opening of the Spoleto Festival 2019 in a dance gala with Eleonora Abbagnato & i talenti italiani nel mondo (Danse Macabre: choreography by F. Ventriglia), the Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 (Stravinsky's Petrushka: choreography by L. Massine) or the 74a Estate Teatrale Veronese and Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2022 (Rainbow, Love & Peace: choreography by G. Mancini). At the beginning of the 2023/24 season,Tommaso Beneventi joined Bayerisches Staatsballett as a member of the corps de ballet.

(Information as of May 2025)

Selected roles and soli in the 2024/25 season
Gardener in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Dancer in Chasm (Andrew Skeels), as part of the Duato/Skeels/Eyal Triple Bill
Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Dancer in The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch), as part of the Wings of Memory Triple Bill
Pas de six in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Quadrille Dancer in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)
Hunter in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)
Clown in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)

other productions in the 2024/25 season:
La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte nach Filippo Taglioni)
Onegin (John Cranko)

productions in previous seasons:
Alice im Wunderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
La Bayadère (Patrice Bart nach Marius Petipa)
Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Tschaikowski-Ouvertüren (Alexei Ratmansky)