Francesco Gabriele Frola
Lead Principal
Birthplace
Aosta, Italy
Training
Professione Danza Parma, Italy; The School of the Hamburg Ballet, Germany and Fomento Artistico Cordobés in Mexico.
English National Ballet
Joined in 2018, promoted to Lead Principal in 2020.
Repertoire
With English National Ballet, leading roles include Albrecht in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle, Des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, Nephew/Prince in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, Prince Siegfried in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake and Swan Lake in-the-round, Prince Guillaume and Benjamin in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Conrad and Birbanto in Anna-Marie Holmes’s Le Corsaire, Bridegroom in Mats Ek’s The Rite of Spring, Harald Lander’s Etudes, David Dawson’s Four Last Songs.
Other roles include the title role in Nijinsky; Peter/The Nutcracker in The Nutcracker; Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty; Lensky in Onegin, Florizel in The Winter’s Tale, James in La Sylphide, Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet and Lescaut in Manon. Other roles include Swan Lake, A Month in the Country, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, La Fille mal gardée, The Four Seasons, Allegro Brillante, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Chroma, Theme and Variations, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pinocchio, Le Spectre de la Rose, Piano Concerto #1 and Carousel (A Dance).
Other info
Awarded the Rolex Dancers First Award (2015) for his performance of the title role in Nijinsky and Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, and the Patron Award of Merit in 2014. In 2012, he won the Silver Medal at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition and the Bronze Medal in the International Ballet Competition in Cuba in 2010. He was also a semi-finalist at Prix de Lausanne in 2008 and received the prize for Best Male at the Grand Prix Pavlova in 2006 and 2003.
