María Noel Riccetto

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Riccetto and the second or maternal family name is Barusso.
Maria Noel Riccetto
Born
Maria Noel Riccetto

(1980-03-27) 27 March 1980 (age 44)
Montevideo, Uruguay
EducationUruguay National Ballet School
North Carolina School of the Arts
Known forBallet
Children1

María Noel Riccetto Barusso (born 27 March 1980) is an Uruguayan ballet dancer, television personality and arts administrator, who currently serves as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay.[1] A former soloist with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), she was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2017.[2]

Early life

María Noel Riccetto Barusso was born on 27 March 1980 in Montevideo, to Hugo Riccetto and María Barusso.[3] She is of Italian descent on both parents' sides.[4] Raised Catholic, she attended Colegio Las Teresas, Colegio Jesús María in Carrasco, and Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción in Centro.[5]

Dance career

She began studying ballet at the Uruguay National Ballet School in 1990. She was hired as a professional dancer in 1995 by the Uruguayan National Ballet, which depends on the Official Service of Broadcasting, Television and Entertainment (SODRE), dancing pieces by Rodolfo Lastra, Ivan Tenorio, Jaime Pintos, and others. In 1998, Riccetto was named "Revelation of the Year" by Uruguayan dance critic Washington Roldan, and received the Elena Smirnova Prize from Enrique Honorio Destaville, an Argentine ballet reviewer. Later that year she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts on a full scholarship. There she performed in Grand Pas Romantique (choreographed and staged by Fernando Bujones) and Intermezzo (choreographed by Eliot Feld).

She also danced the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. In 1999, when the production was performed at the Hungarian National Academy, Ms. Riccetto was invited to Budapest to reprise her role as the Sugar Plum Fairy, dancing with Gabor Szigeti, a soloist with the Hungarian National Ballet. Riccetto was as a guest artist at the 25th Anniversary Gala for the Uruguay National Ballet School and was invited by that country's First Lady to dance in Montevideo and Punta Del Este. In August 1999, Riccetto joined American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet and three years later she was promoted to soloist.[6]

Riccetto was the "dance double" for Mila Kunis in the 2010 film Black Swan, a psychological thriller about ballet dancers in New York City.[7]

After 13 years of dancing in the American Ballet Theatre, in 2012 Riccetto came back to Uruguay to dance in the Uruguayan National Ballet, directed by Argentinian former dancer Julio Bocca.[8] In 2017, Riccetto was awarded a Prix Benois de la Danse for her performance of Tatiana in Onegin.[9]

In September 2019, Channel 10 cast Riccetto as a judge on it its upcoming talent show reality series Got Talent Uruguay, alongside Agustín Casanova, Claudia Fernández and Orlando Petinatti.[10][11]

Awards

Selected repertoire

American Ballet Theatre.[6]

Personal life

In August 2024, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child with her partner, photographer Ignacio Guani.[12] She announced the birth of their son on December 7, 2024.[13]

References

  1. ^ Cisnero, Fernán (2023-07-27). "Con dos coreógrafos internacionales y la dirección de Maria Noel Riccetto, el BNS estrena ballet; los detalles". EL PAIS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  2. ^ "María Noel Riccetto ganó el premio de danza más importante del mundo". Radiomundo En Perspectiva (in Spanish). 2017-05-31. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  3. ^ Lopez Belloso, Roberto (2019-12-27). "María Riccetto: La eternidad y un día". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  4. ^ Lopez Belloso, Roberto (2019-12-27). "María Riccetto: La eternidad y un día". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  5. ^ "María Noel Riccetto habla del libro sobre su vida: "Me da alegría compartir mi historia"". EL PAIS. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  6. ^ a b "ABT biography for Maria Riccetto". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  7. ^ Fuhrer, Margaret (April–May 2010). "Ballet All Over: Big Names in Black Swan". Pointe Magazine. Macfadden Performing Arts Media. Archived from the original on 2010-07-15.
  8. ^ "Riccetto vuelve para vivir "una época de oro" del Ballet del Sodre". 180.com.uy. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  9. ^ "Benois de la danse: 2017".
  10. ^ "Se presentaron tres de los jurados de GOT TALENT URUGUAY". canal10.com.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  11. ^ "María Noel Riccetto, Claudia Fernández y Petinatti estarán en el jurado de Got Talent Uruguay". subrayado.com.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  12. ^ "María Noel Riccetto confirmó que está embarazada y espera a su primer hijo: "No podemos estar más felices"". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 2024-08-08. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  13. ^ ""Empieza otro viaje": la emoción de María Noel Riccetto por la llegada a casa de su hijo, que nació prematuro". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-15.