Elisa Mestres
corps de ballet
Born near Paris and trained at the Studio Skouratoff in Montpellier and at the Heinz Bosl Foundation in Munich, Elisa won gold medals at the international ballet competitions in Grasse and Biarritz and reached the semi-finals of the 36th Prix de Lausanne. She launched her professional career in the 2010/2011 season as a scholarship holder of the Heinz Bosl Foundation and danced as a trainee of Bayerisches Staatsballett and Bayerisches Staatsballett II in the 2012/2013 season. Elisa Mestres has been a member of the corps de ballet since the beginning of the 2013/2014 season.
(Information as of February 2025)
Roles and parts in the 2025/26 season
Bathilde in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Queen Mother in Illusions – like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)
Solo "Spiele der Annäherung" (KV 571/1) and Four ladies in black in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
The Nutcracker (John Neumeier)
La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Taglioni)
Blake Works I (William Forsythe), as part of the Waves and Circles triple bill
Onegin (John Cranko)
Cacti (Alexander Ekman), as part of the Common Ground triple bill
Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
Grand Pas Classique from Paquita (Marius Petipa), as part of the Konstellationen multiple bill
Previous roles and parts
Queen Mother in Illusions – like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)
Solo "Spiele der Annäherung" (KV 571/1) in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Bathilde and Pas de six in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Odalisque in Le Corsaire (Ivan Liška after Petipa)
Grand Pas in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Petipa)
Mother / Queen of Hearts in Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland (Chrisotpher Wheeldon)
Lady of the Street inThe Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
Anna Karenina (Christian Spuck)
Autodance (Sharon Eyal), as part of the Duato/Skeels/Eyal triple bill
Bedroom Folk (Sharon Eyal), as part of the Paradigma triple bill
Blake Works I (William Forsythe), as part of the Waves and Circles triple bill
The Blizzard (Andrey Kaydanovskiy)
Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Coppélia (Roland Petit)
Don Quijote (Ray Barra after Petipa)
dunkelgrau (Özkan Ayik), as part of the Heute ist morgen (2022) multiple bill
La fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
Le Grand Sot (Marion Motin), as part of the Sphären.01 quadruple bill
Jewels (George Balanchine)
Kairos (Wayne McGregor), as part of the Portrait Wayne McGregor triple bill
Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
The Nutcracker (John Neumeier)
Onegin (John Cranko)
Once Upon Ever After (Terence Kohler), as part of the Once Upon An Ever After/Choreartium double bill
Raymonda (Ray Barra after Petipa)
The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch), as part of the Wings of Memory triple bill
Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Swan Lake (Ray Barra after Ivanov/Petipa)
Symphony in C (George Balanchine), as part of the Sinfonie in C / In the Night / Adam is triple bill
Skinny Hearts (Edouard Hue), as part of the Sphären.02 triple bill
A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Spartacus (Yuri Grigorovich)
Sweet Bones' Melody (Marco Goecke), as part of the Passagen triple bill
La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Taglioni)
Tchaikovsky Overtures (Alexei Ratmansky)
To get to become (Philippe Kratz) as part of the Heute ist morgen triple bill
Unitxt (Richard Siegal), as part of the Exits and Entrances double bill
Waste (Štěpán Pechar), as part of the Junge Choreographen 2018 triple bill