Alessandro Frola was born in Parma, Italy, and trained at Profession Dance Parma, Fomento Artístico Cordobés and the School of the Hamburg Ballet. He joined the Hamburg Ballet in 2019, and was promoted to Soloist in 2022.
In John Neumeier’s repertory he has danced, among other roles, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Armand in The Lady of the Camellias, Prince Désiré and Catalabutte in The Sleeping Beauty, Drosselmeier in The Nutcracker, The Man in the Shadow in Illusions – like Swan Lake, The War in The Odyssey, Allan Gray in A Streetcar Named Desire and solos in St Matthew Passion, Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler and Préludes CV. John Neumeier created for him The Shadow in Dona Nobis Pacem and solos in Peter and Igor and Epilogue. His repertory also includes solo roles in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre, Hans van Manen’s Variations for Two Couples, Justin Peck’s The Times Are Racing, Demis Volpi’s The thing with feathers and William Forsythe’s Blake Works V (The Barre Project).
In 2023, Alessandro Frola was awarded the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize and was promoted to Principal.
