Boris Pilato

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Boris Pilato (born May 6, 1914 in Gorizia or Marburg an der Drau , † June 7, 1997 in Essen ) was a dancer , choreographer , ballet director and opera director from Friuli or Slovenia .

life and work

After a classical training at the conservatory in Ljubljana and Belgrade , Pilato was initially active as a solo dancer and worked as such in Belgrade, Graz , Paris , Munich , Danzig , Berlin , Baden near Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck . After completing his active career as a dancer (in Biel ), he worked for many years - mainly in collaboration with Anton Vujanic - as a choreographer, opera and operetta director and ballet director in Bonn , Lübeck , Gelsenkirchen , Essen (under the directors Erich Schumacher , Jürgen Dieter Waidelich and Ulrich Brecht ) and Dortmund .

In the 1950s, Pilato, like Tatjana Gsovsky , Wacław Orlikowski , Erich Walter and others, was considered a pioneer of modernity in classical ballet. He developed well over 200 choreographies (including more than forty in Essen), both for contemporary music (including a whole series of music premieres) and new choreographies for the great classical narrative ballets.

Over the years, the most important protagonists of his troupe have included Vanja Bourgoudjieva, Yvette Chauvire, Renate Deppisch, Jeane Ingels, Ute Lichtenthäler, Vjera Markovic, Annemarie Nickisch, Christa Piroch, Michèle Poupon, Adele Zurhausen. Among the most important male dancers with whom he worked for many years were the solo dancers Uwe Evers, Eugeniusz Jakubiak, Rainer Köchermann , the future Berlin ballet director Gert Reinholm , Ulrich Röhm , Janez Samec and Henk van der Veen.

The publication of his memoirs under the title "We danced when heaven burned", which was discussed with Ruhr Bishop Franz Hengsbach , then stopped.

Choreographic works (selection)

World premieres based on concert music
Re-choreographed classical narrative ballets and other narrative ballets (world premieres)

Foreign guest performances of the Pilato troupe

Television recordings

  • March 11, 1960: Orpheus , ballet in three scenes with music by Stravinsky (piano reduction by Leopold Spinner ), choreography: Boris Pilato.
  • October 10, 1960: Paolo and Francesca after Dante , ballet with music by Tchaikovsky , choreography: Boris Pilato.
  • 1981: Pilato-Matinée, in Here and Today on WDR .

Private

Pilato was married to the Slovenian prima ballerina Erna Mohar (born May 13, 1905 in Laibach ; † 1972), who in turn was married to Alois Vodischek's first marriage.

literature

  • Franz Feldens: 75 Years of the Essen Municipal Theaters. History of the Essen Theater 1892–1967 . Rheinisch-Westfälische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1967.
  • Helga Mohaupt, Rudolf Majer-Finkes: The Grillo Theater: History of an Essen theater building. 1892-1990 ; with documentation by Rudolf Majer-Finkes; Bonn: Bouvier, 1990, ISBN 3-416-80661-1
  • Jürgen Dieter Waidelich : Essen plays theater: 1000 and one hundred years; for the 100th birthday of the Grillo Theater. Vol. 1 (1992) and Vol. 2 (1994), ECON-Verlag, ISBN 3-430-19454-7
  • Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt: An artist with passion: Boris Pilato for his 80th birthday . In: Ballett-Journal / Das Tanzarchiv . Vol. 42 (June 1994), No. 3, pp. 60-63. Illustr., Portrait.
  • Felix Grützner: Dancing Against Resignation: On the Death of Boris Pilato (1914 to 1997) . In: Ballett-Journal / Das Tanzarchiv . Vol. (Oct. 1997) 45, No. 4, pp. 58-59. Portrait.
  • Boris Pilato and the Ballet in Essen '67 -'81 (with a foreword by Käthe Flamm), Essen 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Steffen, in: Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater , Index (1997), p. 552.
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 106, 1998, p. 844. So also the information in Essen newspapers several times.
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 106, 1998, p. 844.
  4. ↑ Here he appeared in the Narodno pozorište u Beogradu before the Yugoslav king Alexander (1888–1934).
  5. ↑ Performances with the Mistinguett and the Théâtre Mogador, among others . At that time, Pilato was around Stravinsky, Serge Lifar and Colette , and he also appeared in early talkies, cf. WAZ , May 4, 1994.
  6. ↑ First performance certificate from January 17, 1948: “In the Stadttheater […] the ballet“ The Spanish Rhapsody ”, composed by conductor Richard Langer, is premiered. The soloists Erna Mohar, Boris Pilato, Anton Vujanic, Edith Tolnay and Maria Schmid dance. " Compare Liselotte Lefert-Weibel: Biel Chronicle 1948 addendum.
  7. ↑ Anton Vujanic (born November 19, 1905; † May 7, 1982 in Essen) ao partner of Mia Slavenka, solo dancer in Leipzig, (appearances with Gsovsky), close friends with Mary Wigman .
  8. ↑ Most recently in 1978 in Essen Ero, the rogue of his compatriot Jakov Gotovac .
  9. ↑ Here he choreographed the first German post-war Giselle based on the original by Coralli and Perrot in 1953 in the replacement theater of the Bürgerverein .
  10. ↑ Uwe Evers (born March 26, 1941, † September 9, 2010) received the sponsorship award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1962 .
  11. ↑ Eugeniusz Jakubiak (1936–1990), previously at the Silesian Opera .
  12. ^ Rainer Köchermann (* 1930; † October 28, 2004).
  13. ↑ See WAZ , May 4, 1994.
  14. ↑ NDR television . Cast: Orpheus - Reinholm, Eurydike - Yvette Chauvire, Evers - Black Angel.
  15. ^ Die Zeit , Oct. 7, 1960, No. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Pilato, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav dancer, choreographer, ballet director and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Gorizia or Marburg an der Drau
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1997
Place of death eat