Matias Oberlin was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, and trained in his home city and, with the support of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. He joined the company in 2014 and was promoted to soloist in 2018 and to principal in 2023.
John Neumeier created solos for him in Beethoven Project I, Ghost Light and Epilogue. In Neumeier’s ballets he has also danced roles including Drosselmeier and Günther in The Nutcracker, Gaston Rieux in The Lady of the Camellias, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The King in Christmas Oratorio I—VI, Alexei Karenin in Anna Karenina, Diaghilev in Nijinsky, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and solos in Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Préludes CV and St Matthew Passion. He has also appeared in Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Hans van Manen’s Variations for Two Couples, Justin Peck’s The Times Are Racing and William Forsythe’s Blake Works V (The Barre Project), and portrayed James in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide.
In 2019, he danced the winning choreography by Kristian Lever at the Erik Bruhn Prize and in the same year he won the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize.
