Madison Young

Principal

Madison Young was born in Utah, USA. She received her education at Ballet West Academy and Houston Ballet Academy in Texas. After attending the Prix de Lausanne in 2016, upon receiving the Beau Rivage Palace Second Place Award, she accepted an apprenticeship for Houston Ballet in the season 2016/17, where she was promoted to group dancer in 2017. For the season 2017/18 she joined the Wiener Staatsballet as a Corps de Ballet dancer under direction of Manuel Legris. In 2018 she was promoted to Soloist and in 2019 to First Soloist. With the beginning of the 2020-21 she joined the Bayerisches Staatsballet as a First Soloist. In December 2021 she was promoted to Principal.

(Information as of September 2024)

Roles in the 2024-25 season (updated periodically)
Tatjana in Onegin (John Cranko)
Female Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Title role in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)

Selected roles in preceding seasons
Title Role in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Title Role in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Miranda in Tchaikovsky Overtures (Alexei Ratmansky)
Hippolyta/Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Nikiya in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Titele Role in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)