Viviana Durante

Quick Facts

Full Name	Viviana Durante
Occupation	Ballet Dancer
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1967(1967-05-08)
Age	57
Birthplace	Rome
Country	Italy
Horoscope	Gemini

Viviana Durante Biography

Viviana Durante is one of the most popular and richest Ballet Dancer who was born on May 8, 1967 in Rome, Italy. Viviana Durante (born 8 May 1967) is an English-trained Italian ballet dancer, considered one of the great dramatic ballerinas of recent times. She was a principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Teatro alla Scala and K-Ballet. She is currently Director of Dance at English National Ballet School and Artistic Director of Viviana Durante Company, with which she occasionally performs.

Durante joined American Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer for the 1999 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. She subsequently appeared as a guest artist with major international ballet companies including La Scala Milan, Tokyo Ballet and Dresden Semperoper Ballett. From 2003 to 2012 she was the leading ballerina of Japan’s K-Ballet, founded by fellow Royal Ballet alumnus Tetsuya Kumakawa. Continuing to perform the classics, she also took roles in ballets including Bintley’s Cyrano de Bergerac; George Balanchine’s Apollo, Ballet Imperial, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Who Cares? and Symphony in C; Rudolf Nureyev’s Laurentia; Tetley’s La Ronde; Uwe Scholz’s The Red and the Black; Roland Petit’s Coppelia, Carmen and Duke Ellington Ballet; and André Prokovsky’s Anna Karenina.

Durante married the British author and journalist Nigel Cliff in June 2009. They have a son, and live in London.

Durante is a patron of The Hammond School and New English Ballet Theatre. She is a regular juror at competitions including the Prix de Lausanne and the Beijing International Ballet Competition. In 2010 a work choreographed by Durante premiered at Dance Base, Edinburgh and the same year she collaborated with Richard Eyre on a dance adaptation of the film Truly, Madly, Deeply.

In 1995, she appeared in the title role of a ninety-minute version of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty, which was telecast on Great Performances by PBS during the Christmas season. In 1998, Durante made a return to the Rome stage as a guest artist in Prokovsky’s production of the Tchaikovsky ballet, one of many international guest appearances.

Viviana Durante Net Worth

Viviana Durante is one of the richest Ballet Dancer from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Viviana Durante 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Durante was born in Rome and started ballet there at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma aged six. Spotted by ballerina Galina Samsova, she joined the lower school of the Royal Ballet School at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. A year later she featured in a Thames Television documentary entitled I really want to dance. Shortly after graduating to the upper school, aged 17, she joined the Royal Ballet Company. Two years later she attracted national attention when she took over as Odette/Odile in mid-performance, never having been taught the role. At 21 she became the company’s youngest principal dancer, and a year later, in 1990, she became the youngest artist to receive the Evening Standard Ballet Award.

In 1992 Durante and her fellow principal Darcey Bussell were the joint subjects of a South Bank Show documentary Two Ballerinas at the Royal Ballet (UK: Two Royal Ballet Dancers), and the following year both were invited by the New York City Ballet for the Balanchine Celebration at the New York State Theater.

In 1999, a disagreement between Durante and The Royal Ballet, reportedly following her request for a cast change after she was dropped by a partner, blew up into a national media storm. After what the media called a ‘dazzling 12-year career’ as one of the British ballet’s major stars, Durante left the company in 2001 to pursue a freelance career.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Viviana Ranked on the list of most popular Ballet Dancer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Viviana Durante celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.