Margarita Fernandes
Margarita Fernandes, born in Portugal, began her ballet training at the age of eight at the Conservatório Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sanchez in Leiria, which follows the Cuban methodology. She regularly received further education from guest teachers and renowned dancers of the Vaganova and French schools, including Julio Bocca, Misha Tchoupakov, David Makhateli and Yannick Boquin. From 2020, she worked daily with Maina Gielgud on the 19th- and 20th-century classical repertoire, performing Gielgud’s stagings of La Sylphide (Act II) as well as full-length productions of Don Quixote, Giselle, and Swan Lake.
In the 2021/22 season, at the age of only 16, she joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a Demi-Soloist. In 2024, she was promoted to Soloist. Her repertoire includes major roles such as Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin, Juliet in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, the title role and Effie in Pierre Lacotte’s La Sylphide, Swanilda in Roland Petit’s Coppélia, Helena in John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ophelia in Alexei Ratmansky’s Tchaikovsky Overtures, the title role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Clementine in Wheeldon’s Cinderella. She has also performed works by George Balanchine, Ray Barra, Patrice Bart, David Dawson, Nacho Duato, Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, Angelin Preljocaj and Peter Wright, among others.
Margarita Fernandes has won numerous prizes at international ballet competitions, including first prize (2018) and the Hope Award (2017) at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), first prize at Domenico Modugno in Lecce, Italy (2017) and second prize at the South African International Ballet Competition (2018).
Margarita Fernandes joined the Vienna State Ballet as a Soloist in the 2025/26 season. Her Viennese repertoire includes, among others, the Peasant Pas de quatre in Elena Chernyshova’s Giselle, Kallirhoe’s maid and Plangon in Alexei Ratmansky’s Kallirhoe, George Balanchine’s Jewels (Pas de deux in Rubies) and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room. She also participated in the choreography by Jessica Lang for the 68th Vienna Opera Ball.
Performances with Margarita Fernandes
with Madison Young, Victor Caixeta, Timoor Afshar, Milda Luckuté, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Thursday 23. April 2026
Abo 17
Ticket information
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 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 Margarita Fernandes, Kentaro Mitsumori, Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
Giselle
Cast on Friday 8. May 2026
Abo 6
Ticket information
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 |
Abo 11
Ticket information
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 01. Oktober 2025 | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 03. Dezember 2025 | Věc Makropulos |
| 11. März 2026 | Don Pasquale |
| 08. April 2026 | Parsifal |
| 27. Mai 2026 | Manon (Ballett) |
| 23. September 2026 | La clemenza di Tito |
| 18. November 2026 | Madama Butterfly |
| 16. Dezember 2026 | Onegin |
| 07. April 2027 | Manon Lescaut |
| 05. Mai 2027 | Die tote Stadt |