| | | • Prize-winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Ballet Competition (St Petersburg, 2002). Born in Leningrad (St Petersburg).
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2003 (class of Lyudmila Safronova).
In 2003 she was admitted to the Mariinsky Ballet Company and one year later was promoted to soloist. Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Giselle (Giselle);
Le Corsaire (Medora);
La Bayadère (Nikia);
The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Candide Fairy, Princess Florine);
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile);
Don Quixote (Kitri, Queen of the Dryads, Variation in Act IV);
George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, Jewels (Diamonds, Rubies), The Four Temperaments, Symphony in C (First Movement), Theme and Variations, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Piano Concerto No 2 and Scotch Symphony;
Grand pas classique choreography by Viktor Gzovsky;
In the Night, choreography by Jerome Robbins;
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Tsar Maiden), choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and
Études (Soloist), choreography by Harald Lander. In 2004 she performed the role of Masha in the ballet The Nutcracker at the National Theatre in Tokyo. In 2006 she made her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Rudolf Nureyev’s version).
In 2008 she danced at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), a role she also performed at the Paliashvili Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Georgia (2009).
Alina Somova has performed at numerous concerts both in Russia and abroad, including a New Year gala at La Scala (Milan, 2005), Stars of the 21st Century (Toronto, 2006), Les Étoiles (Montreal, 2006, 2007), a gala concert dedicated to Marina Semyonova (Moscow, 2008), a Tamara Rojo gala (Spain, 2008) and a concert dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya (Spain, 2008). She performs lead roles in numerous ballets and appears in all of the theatre’s tours, performing at the greatest ballet theatres in Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan and China. |
