Barbora Kohoutková
The former principal dancer Barbora Kohoutková is working since 2008 as a ballet master and guest ballet teacher all over the world and is furthermore since 2009 a Gyrotonic® & Gyrokinesis® certified instructor and founded her own studio. Since September 2022 she is a ballet mistress at the Vienna State Ballet, where she already worked as a guest teacher before and danced in the »Nurejew Gala« 2011 alongside Semyon Chudin the Pas de deux from »Le Corsaire«.
Barbora Kohoutková was born in Prague and educated at the Prague Dance Conservatory. Already during her seven-year studies she received several international awards at ballet competitions such as Grand Prix in Paris, Gold medal and Grand Prix in Helsinki and New York, Prix espèces at the Prix de Lausanne 1995 and in 2002 the Philip Morris Best Artist Award. At seventeen she became a first soloist at the Finnish National Ballet. Further engagements followed at the Bavarian State Ballet, Boston Ballet and Hamburg Ballet. Alongside numerous guest appearances she danced as a guest principal dancer at Aalto Ballet Essen in the 2013/14 season. She mastered a wide range of classical and neoclassical roles with distinguished partners such as Roberto Bolle, Friedemann Vogel, Inaki Urlezaga, Denis Matvienko, Semyon Chudin, Roman Lazik and Alen Bottaini and worked with some of the most famous choreographers.
An important part of her career is her pedagogical work. Barbora Kohoutková taught classical dance at several ballet schools and companies such as the Harvard University in Boston, English National Ballet School, National Theatre and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Finnish National Theatre, the Swedish company Norrdans, Beijing Dance Academy, Tokyo Ballet and Vienna State Ballet. At last, she was a ballet master at the National Theatre in Prague.
In the 2023/24 season she will stage Michel Fokine's »Les Sylphides« in the ballet evening of the same name at the Volksoper Wien.
Performances with Barbora Kohoutková
with Madison Young, Victor Caixeta, Timoor Afshar, Milda Luckuté, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Thursday 23. April 2026
Abo 17
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 11. September 2025 | Otello |
| 20. November 2025 | Dialogues des Carmélites |
| 26. Februar 2026 | Luisa Miller |
| 26. März 2026 | Die verkaufte Braut |
| 23. April 2026 | Giselle (Ballett) |
| 10. September 2026 | Don Carlo |
| 08. Oktober 2026 | Eine florentinische Tragödie/Herzog Blaubarts Burg |
| 28. Jänner 2027 | Don Giovanni |
| 08. April 2027 | Tristan und Isolde |
| 20. Mai 2027 | Lulu |
with Cassandra Trenary, Davide Dato, Giorgio Fourés, Ioanna Avraam, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Sunday 26. April 2026
with Laura Fernandez Gromova, António Casalinho, Alessandro Cavallo, Rosa Pierro, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Sunday 26. April 2026
Abo 24
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 21. September 2025 | Tannhäuser |
| 25. Jänner 2026 | Idomeneo |
| 22. Februar 2026 | Ariadne auf Naxos |
| 22. März 2026 | Le Grand Macabre |
| 26. April 2026 | Giselle (Ballett) |
| 04. Oktober 2026 | Macbeth |
| 27. Dezember 2026 | La Damnation de Faust |
| 25. April 2027 | Die tote Stadt |
| 16. Mai 2027 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
| 13. Juni 2027 | Woolf Works |
with Madison Young, Victor Caixeta, Milda Luckuté, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Thursday 30. April 2026
with Liudmila Konovalova, Masayu Kimoto, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Saturday 2. May 2026
with Margarita Fernandes, Kentaro Mitsumori, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Friday 8. May 2026
Abo 6
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 10. Oktober 2025 | Fin de partie |
| 14. November 2025 | Falstaff |
| 09. Jänner 2026 | Manon |
| 08. Mai 2026 | Giselle (Ballett) |
| 29. Mai 2026 | Les Pêcheurs de perles |
| 18. September 2026 | Living Legacies |
| 20. November 2026 | Madama Butterfly |
| 08. Jänner 2027 | Die verkaufte Braut |
| 05. März 2027 | Un ballo in maschera |
| 25. Juni 2027 | I Capuleti e i Montecchi |