Matteo Dilaghi

Demi-Soloist

Matteo hails from Bagno a Ripoli, Italy. In 2007 he received a scholarship for La Scala Ballet School in Milan where he graduated in 2011. Since the beginning of season 2011/2012, at first as a scholarship holder of the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung, he danced with Bayerisches Staatsballett II and Bayerisches Staatsballett and was promoted to corps de ballet dancer at the beginning of the 2012/13 season. On 22 November 2024, the opening night of La Sylphide, he was promoted to demi-soloist by ballet director Laurent Hilaire.

(Information as of June 2025)

Roles and soli in the 2024/25 season
Gremin in Onegin (John Cranko)
Four Men in Love (KV 522) in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Gurn in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Count Paris in Romeo und Julia (John Cranko)
Dancer in Silent Screen (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Schmetterling Double Bill
Dancer in Schmetterling (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Schmetterling Double Bill
Wilfried in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Dancer in Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
Dancer in The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch), as part of the Wings of Memory Triple Bill
Prince Siegfried in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)

other productions in the 2024/25 season
Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)

Chasm (Andrew Skeels)
, als Teil des Programms Duato/Skeels/Eyal
White Darkness (Nacho Duato)
, als Teil des Programms Duato/Skeels/Eyal

selected roles from previous seasons

Loving Man in The Rite of Spring (Mary Wigman)
Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Dancer in Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen. Ein Stück von Pina Bausch
Four Fates in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)

other productions in previous seasons
Affairs of the Heart (David Dawson),
as part of the Passagen Triple Bill
Alice im Wunderland
(Christopher Wheeldon)
Anna Karenina
(Christian Spuck)
La Bayadère
(Patrice Bart after Petipa)
Bedroom Folk
(Sharon Eyal), as part of the Paradigma Triple Bill
consonance - tempo giusto
(Peter Walker), as part of the Junge Choreographen 2018 Multiple Bill
Coppélia
(Roland Petit)
Don Quijote
(Ray Barra after Petipa)
DUO
(Nanine Linning)
L’éternité immobile (Nicolas Paul)
La fille mal gardée
(Frederick Ashton)
Jewels
(George Balanchine)
Kairos
(Wayne McGregor), as part of the Portrait Wayne McGregor Triple Bill
Thje Lady of the Camellias
(John Neumeier)
Mama, ich kann fliegen
(Dustin Klein), as part of the Junge Choreographen 2017 Triple Bill
The Nutcracker
(John Neumeier)
Raymonda
(Ray Barra after Petipa)
Spartacus
(Yuri Grigorovich)
Symphony in C
(George Balanchine)
Sweet Bones' Melody (Marco Goecke),
as part of the Passagen Triple Bill
To get to become (Philippe Kratz),
as part of the Heute ist morgen 2022 Mutiple Bill
Death and the Maiden
(Edwaard Liang), as part of the A jour Multiple Bill
Tchaikovsky Overtures
(Alexei Ratmansky)
The Snow Storm
(Andrey Kaydanovskiy)
Swan Lake (Ray Barra after Ivanov/Petipa)
The Taming of the Shrew
(John Cranko)