CORINA DUMITRESCU

Bucharest National Opera

Corina Dumitrescu was born in 1970 in Bucharest. She graduated from the Ballet High School of Bucharest in 1988, and from the University of Theatre and Film in 1994, with a degree in ballet pedagogy. A member of the Bucharest Opera ballet company since 1988 and promoted to principal dancer in 1992. She is also a resident guest artist of the Ballet Theatre in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, since 1997. Corina Dumitrescu has toured and guested in Germany, Holland, France, Spain, England, Yugoslavia, Panama, Italy, South Korea.

Repertoire:
Kitri (Don Quixote), Myrtha and Giselle (Giselle), Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Nikia and Gamzati (La Bayadère), Clara (Nutcracker), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Esmeralda (Notre-Dame de Paris), Anna (Anna Karenina), Madame de Renal (Le Rouge et le Noir), The Maiden (Rite of Spring), Summer (Vivaldi's Seasons), Carmen (Carmen), Solo (Japanese Engravings), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Iseult (Tristram et Iseult), Paquita (Paquita), Cinderella (Cinderella. Plus shorter works by Richard Wherlock, Jean Guizerix, Gigi Caciuleanu, Mihai Babuska (Palladio, Pas de deux berger), Laurentiu Guinea (Past Harmonies), Olivier Patey (Patetica).

Awards:
Bronze Medal in Varna, Bulgaria (1994)
Special Award of the Romanian Performers, Choreoraphers and Critics Society (1994)
Best Artistic Performance Award of the Composers and Musicologists Society (2000)