Edvin Revazov

Edvin Revazov was born in Ukraine. He trained in Moscow and at the Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet, where he has been a member of the company since 2003. In 2007 he was awarded the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize, and was appointed soloist. In 2010 he was promoted to principal.

John Neumeier has created roles for him including the title role in Parzival – Episodes and Echo, Tadzio in Death in Venice, Eugene Onegin in Tatiana, Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina and Tennessee in The Glass Menagerie, along with leading roles in Beethoven Project I and II, Ghost Light and Dona Nobis Pacem.

His repertory also includes the title role in Peer Gynt, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Armand Duval in Lady of the Camellias, the King and The Man in the Shadow in Illusions – Like Swan Lake, Günther in The Nutcracker and solo roles in Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio I–VI.

In addition, he has performed the title role in John Cranko’s Onegin, the Man in Purple in Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering, leading solo roles in George Balanchine’s Brahms / Balanchine and King Leontes in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.

Edvin Revazov can be seen in several ballet films, and has appeared as a guest artist in Munich, Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan, Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong and Beijing, and in 2015 and 2018 at the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo.

He was nominated for the theatre prize DER FAUST in the category ‘Best Dance Performance’ in 2007 for Parzival – Episodes and Echo. In 2018 he won the Premio Positano Léonide Massine and in 2008 the Young Talent Award at the Premio Danza &  Danza.

As a choreographer, Edvin Revazov has created numerous works for the Young Choreographers series, and the piece Rain Memories for the Bundesjugendballett (National Youth Ballet of Germany). Together with Marc Jubete and Aleix Martínez he created the ballet evening Shakespeare – Sonnets, which opened the 45th Hamburg Ballet Days in 2019.