António Casalinho
Guest Dancer
António hails from Leiria, Portugal. He pursued his ballet studies from the age of eight onwards at the Conservatório Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sanchez, which follows the Cuban methodology of training. He won prizes in every international competition he entered: In 2021 the Prix de Lausanne double win of First Prize and Contemporary Prize; in 2019 the Grand Prix at the Beijing International Ballet Competition; in 2018 the Special Distinction Award in the Junior Category, the Emil Dimitrov Prize for Young Talent, Promising Young Dancer and the Bounty Award for the youngest round 3 competitor; at YAGP he took the Grand Prix Award in the Junior and Senior category in 2016 and 2018. António danced with Bayerisches Staatsballett from the 2021/22 through the 2024/25 season, first as a demi-soloist, from January 2023 onwards as a solist, from December 2024 onwards as a Principal Dancer. Starting with the 2025/26 season, António is a Principal Dancer with the Ballet of Vienna State Opera.
(Information as of September 2025)
Roles in the 2025/26 season (as a guest)
James in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte nach Filippo Taglioni)
Graf Alexander in Illusions - like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)
Les bourgeois from La vie en rose (Bern Van Cauwenbergh), as part of the Wurzeln und Blätter Multiple Bill
Lenski in Onegin (John Cranko)
Scottish Couple Pas de deux in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
James in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte nach Filippo Taglioni)
Romeo and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Pas de six Solo in Giselle (Peter Wright)
Count Alexander in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)
Jack / Knave of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Magician / The Mad Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Benjamin in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Benno in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Franz in Coppélia (Roland Petit)
Golden Idol in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart nach Marius Petipa)
Philostrat/Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Affairs of the Heart (David Dawson), as part of the Passagen Triple Bill
Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
The Blizzard (Andrey Kaydanovskiy)
dunkelgrau (Özkan Ayik), as part of the Heute ist morgen Multiple Bill
Faun (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
The Habit (Fran Diaz), as part of the Sphären.01 Quadruple Bill
Jewels (George Balanchine)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Alexei Ratmansky), as part of the Passagen Triple Bill
Schmetterling (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot), as part of theSchmetterling Double Bill
Silent Screen (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot), as part of theSchmetterling Double Bill
Swan Lake (Ray Barra after Ivanov/Petipa)
Sweet Bones' Melody (Marco Goecke), as part of the Passagen Triple Bill
Tchaikovsky Overtures (Alexei Ratmansky)
White Darkness (Nacho Duato), as part of the Duato/Skeels/Eyal Triple Bill
With A Chance of Rain (Liam Scarlett), as part of the Paradigma Triple Bill