Havas was born in Budapest on March 12, 1935. He studied at the Hungarian State Opera between 1947 and 1952. Afterward, he was made a dancer with the company.
Havas also performed with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, playing Romeo opposite Raisa Struchkova and then Zsuzsa Kún, in 1964 and 1966.He was a guest performer at the London Festival Ballet - known since 1989 as the English National Ballet - between 1960 and 1964. And he was made a permanent member of Grand Ballet Classique de France in 1974.
Roles Havas was well known for included the Prince in Swan Lake, Desiré in Sleeping Beauty, Romeo as well as Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, and the Sultan in Scheherazade.
Havas taught at the State Ballet Institute from 1977 and he was a tutor at the Hungarian State Opera from 1985. In 1999, he was made a docent at the Hungarian Dance Academy. He was a guest teacher in several foreign countries.
Havas was presented the Kossuth Prize, Hungary's highest award for artists, in 1965.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
