Marco Masciari

Italian dancer Marco Masciari is a First Artist of The Royal Ballet. He joined The Royal Ballet as a Prix de Lausanne apprentice from the start of the 2020/21 Season and entered the Company as an Artist in the 2022/23 Season and was promoted to First Artist in 2023.

Masciari was born in Catanzaro, Italy and began his training at the age of seven. He trained at Académie de danse Princesse Grace in Monaco from the age of 13. He was the first prize winner and contemporary prize winner at the Prix de Lausanne in 2020. 

Performances during his time as a student include Maillot’s Romeo and Juliet pas de deux, Goeck’s Black Swan pas de deux, Didy Veldman’s Is To Be, The Sleeping Beauty Princess Desiree variation, and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. 

With the Company, his roles include Puck (The Dream), Beggar Chief (Manon), Jester (Cinderella), Russian Dance (The Nutcracker), and roles in Anemoi, Danses concertantes, Les Rendezvous, Woolf Works, Swan Lake, The Weathering, The Dante Project, Solo Echo and Optional Family: A Divertissement. He has created roles for the Company in Robert Binet's Dark with Excessive Bright and Untitled, 2023. He also featured in the 2021 Meet the Young Dancers Insight that was streamed online.