Ariel Merkuri

First Soloist

Ariel Merkuri was born in 1995 in Tirana, Albania and started dancing at five years old. He completed his training at the National Ballet School of Albania (2006-2011), the Accademia Teatro alla Scala (2011-2014) and the Royal Danish Ballet (2014-2017). In the season 2017/18 Ariel Merkuri joined the Corps de ballet of the Bayerisches Staatsballet. In 2019 he was promoted to soloist, since the beginning of the 2024-25 season, he is a First Soloist.

Information as of September 2024

Roles in the 2024-25 season:
Thaïs-Pas de deux from Ma Pavlova (Roland Petit), as part of the Wurzeln und Blätter MultipleBill

Selected roles in previous seasons:
Benvolio in Romeo und Juliet (John Cranko)
Hortensio inThe Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
Golden Idol in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Lewis Carroll / The White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Shepherd in Spartacus (Yuri Grigorovich)
Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Fritz inThe Nutcracker (John Neumeier)
Pas de six Solo in Giselle (Peter Wright)