Anna Vaughan
Anna Vaughan (born September 28, 1940 in Bearsted, Kent ) is a director , choreographer , dancer , professor and lecturer.
Life
As the daughter of an organist and a pianist Vaughan was in Bearsted in the English county of Kent born. She received training as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London , as well as in acting, singing, pantomime and jazz dance. She was then a dancer at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and at Sadler's Wells , then a soloist in Paris in internationally renowned companies such as those of Léonide Massine and Maurice Béjart .
Career
She produced her first choreographies in Graz and at the Theater an der Wien , for example in Der Mann von la Mancha with Josef Meinrad in the title role. She has also choreographed various television shows for ORF . At the Landestheater Linz she became head of ballet and choreographed a. a. the German-language premiere of Silk Stockings (premiere on October 5, 1974) and made her directorial debut there with the production Godspell , which was invited to the Wiener Festwochen.
Later she moved to the Salzburg State Theater and choreographed her own ballet productions and musicals. On September 18, 1985, the German premiere of Oliver! with their choreography. Vaughan taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , later at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the August Everding School in Munich.
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland she staged and choreographed around 35 different musicals (often several times), including The Rocky Horror Show , West Side Story , Jesus Christ Superstar , Evita , Anatevka , La Cage aux Folles and Linie 1 . In Switzerland she worked with Steve Barton and Eric Lee Johnson on The Fantasticks , Kiss me Kate and Godspell .
The director of the Berliner Kammerspiele , Edith Zöllner , brought her to Berlin in 1984, where Vaughn made her Berlin debut with Godspell in the Moabit theater . Immediately afterwards she staged the German-language premiere of Peter Pan at the Theater des Westens with Ute Lemper in the title role (premiere on December 21, 1984). At the Berliner Kammerspiele she worked as in-house director on the productions Elvis with Felix Martin , The Rocky Horror Show , Vom dicken Schwein, who wanted to be thin by Jérôme Savary , Das Dschungelbuch , Der kleine Horrorladen and Pinocchio .
Her first work in East Germany after the fall of the Wall was Anatevka at the Halle Opera House in January 1993 , followed by Godspell and Der Mann von La Mancha . In 1996 she staged the reopening premiere of the Metropol-Theater in Berlin under René Kollo's directorship with the Lehár operetta The Land of Smiles , in which Kollo himself sang the main role on April 8th.
reception
Friedrich Luft in the Berliner Morgenpost about Anna Vaughan's production of Der kleine Horrorladen at the Berliner Kammerspiele:
“… It was staged under the roof, so to speak, but Anna Vaughan was also pretty, quick and imaginative. The beautiful horror story is played, sung, danced and mocked by the mostly very young actors in a good mood and competent ... This should also be seen by as many so-called adults as possible! It's worth it for all ages. "
literature
Charles B. Axton / Otto Zehnder: Reclam's musical guide. Ditzingen: Reclam 1989, ISBN 3-15-010358-4
Web links
- Anna Vaughan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Proof of direction on the website of Christian Schodos (PDF; 78 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vaughan (married Steiner), Anna. Austrian Music Lexicon, April 4, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2016 .
- ^ Program booklet at the Halle Opera House, January 9, 1993, edited by Volker Weiske
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaughan, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Director, choreographer, dancer, professor and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bearsted, Kent |