He began his dance studies at the Hungarian State Ballet Institute, then continued at the Moscow Ballet Academy, where he graduated with excellent results in 1976. In the same year, he signed a contract with the Hungarian State Opera House. In 1978, he was appointed as a private dancer. From 1981 to 1991, he was the first soloist of the Vienna State Opera, and between 1981 and 1989 he was a permanent guest soloist of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Between 1992 and 1996, he worked as an international ballet manager, during which time he presented, among other things, the „Ballet Stars” international star gala shows in Vienna, Lausanne, Frankfurt and Cologne, as well as the Russian Ballet Stars show in Belgium and Slovakia. He is one of the founders and artistic advisors of the Duna Ballet international collaboration, and between 1993-2005 he was the founder and artistic director of the international ballet gala „World Stars at the Opera” at the Hungarian State Opera House. Between 1999-2001, he held the position of president of the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists. From 1995 to 2005, he worked as the director of the Hungarian National Ballet, then from 2005 to 2010 as the director of the ballet ensembles of the Vienna Staatsoper and the Volksoper and the ballet school of the Staatsoper. From 2013 to 2021, he was the artistic director of Szeged Open Air Summer Festival.

Born: Budapest, 1956 May 4

Father: Gyula Harangozó, Founder of the Hungarian National Ballet, Choreographer, character soloist and Director of the Hungarian National Ballet

Mother: Irén Hamala, Leading ballet master and character soloist of the Hungarian National Ballet

Education: A-levels cum laude at the Hungarian State Ballet Academy’s Secondary school
Diploma cum laude at the Moscow State Ballet Academy in Alexander Prokofiev’s class

Languages: German, English, Russian and Spanish at negotiating level, Hungarian (native)

Dancing Career:

– 1976-77 Member of the Hungarian National Ballet
– 1977-78 Soloist of the Hungarian National Ballet
– 1978-85 Principal Dancer of the Hungarian National Ballet
– 1981-91 First Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Opera Ballet
– 1981-89 Permanent guest principal dancer of the Bavarian State Opera Ballet

Awards :

– 1977 Best Juvenile Award at the III. Moscow International Ballet Competition
– 1978 Gold medal as Best Male Dancer at the II. Tokyo International Ballet Competition
– 1981 Hungarian Dancer of the Year
– 1983 Artist of the Year in Munich Germany
– 2000 Officer’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic
– 2004 Esteemed Artist of the Hungarian Republic
– 2009 EuroPas Dance Award
– 2010 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
– 2012 Kossuth prize of the Hungarian Republic
– 2015 Honorary Professor of the Hungarian Dance Academy
– 2021 Honorary Professor of the Hungarian Dance University
– 2021 Master Artist and Eternal Member of the Hungarian State Opera House

Guest appearances: New York Metropolitan Opera House with the American Ballet Theatre, Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, La Scala Milan, London, Paris, Zürich, Madrid, Mexico City, Caracas, Edinburgh, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg etc.

Ballet Manager:

– 1992 „Stars of Ballet“ International Ballet Gala Vienna
– 1994 „Stars of Ballet“ International Ballet Gala Vienna, Lausanne, Frankfurt, Cologne
– 1994 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s guest performance in Vienna
– 1995 „Russian Ballet Stars“ Ballet Gala in Bruxelles
– 1993-95 „Danube-Ballet“ International Production’s artistic director
– 1993-05 „World Stars at the Opera“ Ballet Gala’s artistic director
– 1994 „Russian Ballet Stars“ Ballet Gala in Bratislava
– 1997 Victor Ullate Ballet’s guest performance in Vienna with Paul Szilard Productions Inc.

Choreographies/stagings:

Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker (Vienna State Opera, Ballet Győr, Theater Operetta Budapest)
Kocsák – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hungarian State Opera – Budapest, Estonian State Opera – Tallinn, Rostov Musical Theatre – Russia, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Hong Kong Festival China, West Australian Ballet, Perth, Szeged Open Air Festival, Astana Opera, Kazakhstan)
Minkus – Don Quixote (Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad)
Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake (Hungarian State Opera Budapest)
Delibes – Coppelia (Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Vienna State Opera, Ankara State Opera/Turkey)
Strauss – Platzkonzert (Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Vienna State Opera)
Theodorakis – Zorba (Hungarian National Győr Ballet, Szeged Open Air Festival 2014)
Viennese Opera Ball 2006, 2007 (Vienna State Opera)

Stage director:

Comden-Green-Freed-Brown : Singing in the rain (Szeged Open Air Festival 2016, Operetta Theatre Budapest 2017)
Verdi : Rigoletto (Szeged Open Air Festival 2018)

Director:  – 1995-2005 Director of the Hungarian National Ballet of the Hungarian National Opera

Premiers:

Lavrovsky – Adam Giselle
Zakharov – Asafiev The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
Harangozó – Minkus Don Quixote
Cranko – Tchaikowsky Onegin
Pártay – Mozart Amadeus
Keve – Teodorakis Zorbas the Greek
Barbay – Kocsák Tragedy of Men
MacMillan – Liszt Mayerling
Harangozó – Tchaikowsky Swan Lake
Harangozó sen. – Farkas The Sly Students
Harangozó sen. – Straus Térzene
Harangozó – R.Korsakov Sheherazade
Harangozó sen. – Delibes Coppélia
Egerházi – Glass Porcelain Cradle
Naisy – Conte Mocha
Naisy – Bregovic Ederlézi
Egerházi – Bach – Cage Talking Bodies
Jameson – Cawendish Forgotten Time
Juronics – Gabriel Touches
Naisy – Górecki Everlasting Triangle
Harangozó sen. – Borodin Polovets Dances
Van Manen – Mozart Concertante
Van Manen – J.S. Bach Solo
Zanella – Volans The Room
Van Manen – Prokofiev Sarcasm
Van Manen – Piazzola Five Tangos
Kylian – Mozart Six Dances
Harangozó – Kocsák Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Director: – 2005-2010 Ballet Director of the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Volksoper and Director of the Vienna State Opera Ballet School.

Premiers:

Cavallari – Tchaikowsky Tchaikovsky’s impressions
Harangozó sen. – Delibes Coppelia
Naisy – Conte Mocha
Kylian – Mozart Six dances
Kylian – Mozart Petit Mort
Cranko – Tchaikowsky Onegin
Petipa – Minkus Paquita
Lukács – Richter Whirling
Harangozó – Strauss Platzkonzert
Eifman – Tchaikowsky Anna Karenina
Harangozó – Tchaikowsky The Nutcracker
Barbay – Kropf – Rossini Max and Moritz
Van Cauwenbergh – Queen Hommage of Queen
MacMillan – Liszt Mayerling
Elo – Mozart – Glass Glow Stop
Naisy – Bregovic Ederlezi
Lukács – Richter Duo
Bombana – Bizet – Schedrin Carmen
Elo – Mendelsson A Midsummer night’s dream
Petit – Strauss Fledermaus