Soloist of Estonian National Ballet since 2022

EDUCATION AND WORK
Nelson Peña graduated from the Cuban National Ballet School in 2009. In 2012, he was a soloist with the Josburg Ballet, in 2013–2022 he was a principal dancer with the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kazakhstan, while also being a guest principal dancer with the Russian National Ballet Theatre (2016–2018), Astana Ballet in Kazakhstan (2019) as well as the Saint Petersburg Classical Ballet (2021–2022). In 2022, he joined the Estonian National Ballet. (https://opera.ee/en/person/nelson-pena/)

REPERTOIRE
Prince Siegfried, Rothbart (Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”)
Prince, Drosselmeyer, Rat King and soloist of the “Arabian Dance” (Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”)
Prince Desirée (Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty”)
Albrecht (Adam’s “Giselle”)
Conrad, Lankedem, Alí (Adam’s “The Corsaire”)
Prince (Prokofiev’s “Cinderella”)
Paris (Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Crassus (Khachaturian’s “Spartacus”)
Espada (Minkus’ “Don Quixote”)
Escamillo (Alonso/Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite”)
Poet (Fokine/Chopin’s “Les Sylphides”)
Golden Slave (Fokine’s “Scheherazade”)
Soloist roles in Gregorovich’s “Legend of Love”, Eifman’s “Red Giselle”, Amarante’s “Boléro” among others.