Aurel of Milloss
Aurel von Milloss (born May 12, 1906 in Ozora , Hungary , † September 21, 1988 in Rome ) was a Hungarian-Italian dancer , choreographer and ballet director .
Live and act
Milloss studied philosophy and history at the University of Budapest and dancing with Nicola Guerra , Victor Gsovsky and previously in the Berlin Laban School of Hertha Feist . As a dancer he made his debut with Rudolf von Laban at the Berlin State Opera in 1928 , then went self-employed and worked as a solo dancer, choreographer, ballet director and opera director at theaters in Germany, including from 1932 to 1934 at the Augsburg Theater as director of the dance theater and in Düsseldorf Walter Bruno Iltz , and in Italy. After the Second World War he worked in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro , among others . In Paris he staged “Le Portrait de Don Quichotte” at the Ballets des Champs-Elysées .
In 1959 Oscar Fritz Schuh signed him to Cologne, together with the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch and the set designer Caspar Neher . Milloss brought Marcel Luipart as his deputy and Leon Woizikowsky as ballet master to Cologne and worked with artists such as Maurice Béjart , Birgit Cullberg and Léonide Massine . In 1961, Milloss set up the "Institute for Stage Dance" at the Cologne State University of Music , Department of Musical Theater . It consisted of a technical school for stage dancers and a college for artistic dance with a department for dance studies .
From 1963 to 1966 he was ballet director at the Vienna State Opera , where he engaged Rudolf Nurejew, among others, for a new production of Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn . Later he worked at La Scala in Milan , at the Rome Opera House, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and from 1971 to 1974 again at the Vienna State Opera.
Fonts
- The legacy of expressionism in dance. Relazione di base su danza; Convegno Internazionale di Studi sull'Espressionismo. Florence 1964.
- Coreosofia. Scritti sulla danza; with the libretto di Marsia e una lettera a Hans Kresnik . Edited by Stefano Tomassini. Olschki, Florence 2002, ISBN 88-222-5132-6 .
literature
- Ursula Kneiss: Milloss, Aurel von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 529 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Giovanni Morelli (Ed.): Creature di Prometeo. Il ballo teatrale; dal divertimento al dramma; studi offerti a Aurel M. Milloss. Festschrift for Aurel M. Milloss. Olschki, Florence 1996, ISBN 88-222-4415-X .
- Patricia Veroli: Milloss. A maestro della coreografia tra espressionismo e classicità. Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca 1996, ISBN 88-7096-174-5 .
Web links
- On the 20th anniversary of Aurel von Milloss' death
- Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller : Milloss, Aurel von. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Erich Pabst in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon
- ↑ "Swan Lake" in the Vienna State Opera on oe1.orf.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Milloss, Aurel of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milloss de Miholy, Aurél |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ozora , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1988 |
| Place of death | Rome |