Annette Buvoli

First Soloist of The Royal Ballet

Biography

American dancer Annette Buvoli is a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company in 2013. She was promoted to First Artist in 2019, to Soloist, 2022 and First Soloist, 2024.

Buvoli trained at the Boulder Ballet School in Colorado before entering The Royal Ballet School. Buvoli’s repertory at the School included a role in John Neumeier’s Yonderling and The Woman (Mark Annear’s La Destinée) in the School’s annual matinees. While a student Buvoli danced with the Company in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker

Buvoli’s repertory with the Company includes Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Mercedes (Don Quixote), Fairy Godmother and The Fairy Winter (Cinderella) Empress Elisabeth (Mayerling) Fairy of the Crystal Fountain (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha (Giselle), Rosaline (Romeo and Juliet), Frasquita (Carmen), Two Swans (Swan Lake), Nacha (Like Water for Chocolate), and roles in Rhapsody, Requiem, Symphonic Dances, Corybantic Games, The Rite of Spring, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, Woolf Works, Medusa and The Dream. She has created roles in Secret Things.

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