Mayara Magri

Brazilian dancer Mayara Magri is a Principal of The Royal Ballet. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company in 2012. She was promoted to First Artist in 2015, to Soloist in 2016, First Soloist in 2018 and Principal in 2021. 

Magri grew up in Brazil and won a scholarship at the age of eight to train at the Petite Danse School in Rio de Janeiro. She won the Senior Age Division of the Youth America Grand Prix and the Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize in 2011. 

Magri’s repertory with the Company includes Paulina (The Winter's Tale), Cinderella, Fairy Godmother (Cinderella), Odette/Odile, Juliet, Gamzatti, Myrtha (Giselle), Olga (Onegin), Gypsy Girl (The Two Pigeons), Princess Aurora and Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Tatiana (Anastasia), Kitri and Mercedes (Don Quixote), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Handmaiden (Apollo), Entertainer (The Invitation), Polyhymnia (Apollo), Countess Larisch and Mitzi Caspar (Mayerling), Lescaut's Mistress (Manon), The Siren (Prodigal Son), The Queen of Hearts and roles in The Cellist, Rhapsody, Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan, Serenade, Symphony in C, Or Forevermore, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, ‘Rubies’ (Jewels), Woolf Works, Within the Golden Hour, Monotones I, Symphonic Variations, Dances at a Gathering, Within the Golden Hour, After the Rain, Asphodel Meadows, Woolf Works, Carbon Life, Solo Echo, women with water and DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse. She created Rosaura in Like Water for Chocolate and roles in Mthuthuzeli November's For What It's Worth, Multiverse, Corybantic Games, The Illustrated ‘Farewell’, The Dante Project and Prima. 

Mayara Magri is scheduled to perform in Mayerling on 30 March, 4 April and 9 April 2026. She is scheduled to perform in Giselle on 10 March 2026. She is scheduled to perform in La Fille mal gardée on 5 June and 9 June 2026.