Giorgio Madia

Giorgio Madia (born July 29, 1965 in Milan , northern Italy ) is an Italian ballet dancer , choreographer and director .

Life

Stage career

Madia trained at the ballet school of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 1976 to 1984 . In 1984 he graduated as a ballet dancer in the production Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) in the choreography of Roland Petit . He then had his first engagement at La Scala in Milan between 1984 and 1985. Madia danced his first solo part there in Jungle , a choreography by Andy De Groat . From 1985 to 1988 Madia was a solo dancer with the Ballet du XXe siècle by Maurice Béjart at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels . In 1987 Madia went with Béjart to Lausanne , where Béjart had relocated his company. From 1987 to 1988 he was a solo dancer in the Béjart Ballet Lausanne .

This was followed by further engagements as a solo dancer in the United States , with the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet from 1988 to 1990. There Madia danced alongside parts of the classical repertoire, among others, solo parts in choreographies by George Balanchine , Robert Taylor, William Forsythe , Merce Cunningham and Richard Tanner. From 1988 to 1991 Madia went on a world tour with Rudolf Nurejew and soloists of the Paris Opera Ballet with Nureyev and Friends , performing several times in two pas de deux with Nureyev, including the choreographies La Pavane du More and Le Chant du Compagnon Errant .

In the 1990s Madia had engagements as a solo dancer with the San Francisco Ballet (1990–1992), again with the Pennsylvania Ballet as first solo dancer (1992–1993), as first solo dancer with the Italian ballet company Aterballetto (1993) and as a solo dancer with the Zurich Ballet ( 1995-1997).

Choreography and direction

In 1997 Giorgio Madia ended his active career as a dancer. Since then Madia has been working as a ballet master , as a choreographer and, in recent years, increasingly as a director. From 1997 to 1999 he was a teacher and ballet master at the Balletto di Toscana in Florence . 2000–2001 he was ballet master and choreographic assistant at the BerlinBallett at the Komische Oper under the direction of Richard Wherlock .

In October 2000 he became artistic director and chief choreographer at Teatr Wielki in Łódź .

In 2001 he became the first ballet master of the newly founded Ballet Basel. Since 2002 he has been chief choreographer of the Mörbisch Seefestspiele . In 2003 he took over directing the new production of the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehár at short notice. From 2003 to 2005 Madia was ballet director of the Vienna Volksoper . Madia put on two full-length ballet evenings there. In March 2004 his choreography Nudo , with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Béla Fischer , premiered there. In January 2005 Alice followed , a production based on motifs by Lewis Carroll with music by Nino Rota . Madia also took over the choreography for the operetta productions of Boccaccio , One Night in Venice and Wiener Blut . His Viennese production of Alice was shown under the title Alice's Wonderland 2007 in a new choreography by the Staatsballett Berlin at the Komische Oper in Berlin .

The operetta The Merry Widow (director: Helmuth Lohner ), for which Giorgio Madia created the choreography at the Zurich Opera House in 1997, returned to the program in 2004; the resumption was recorded and released on DVD in 2004.

Madia has been working as a freelancer since 2005. In May 2006 he choreographed the ballet Sleeping Beauty for the Teatr Wielki . This production received the Golden Mask for the best production of the 2005/06 season. In May 2007 the production Cinderella followed , which was awarded the Golden Mask in the categories of Best Director, Best Set Design and Best Costumes in the 2006/07 season. In October 2008 Madia created the choreography for The Nutcracker in Łódź . In the 2008/09 season, the Balletto di Milano produced his own choreography by Romeo e Giulietta , based on William Shakespeare with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . In September 2009 the world premiere of his ballet evening Chopin Imaginaire with music by Frédéric Chopin at the Cottbus State Theater . Further full-length productions followed: OZ - The Wonderful Wizard (2011, for the Staatsballett Berlin), Harlekin (a dance comedy for the Staatstheater Cottbus), Ferdinand Hérolds La fille mal gardée (2012) and Coppélia (2013), both for the Wrocław Opera House , Don Juan (2014) for the Berlin State Ballet, Swan Song for the Old Ballet Lausanne, Peter Pan (2016) for the Croatian National Theater Zagreb and Pinocchio for the Bałtycka Opera Gdańsk (2017).

Since 2006 Madia has also worked as a director in music theater. Madia took on his first directorial work in February 2006 with a production of the musical revue Ain't Misbehavin ' with music by Fats Waller in the Vienna Chamber Opera . In December 2007 Madia directed the opera for the first time in the production of Hoffmann's Tales by Jacques Offenbach at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź. This production was also awarded the Golden Mask for Best Director in the 2007/08 season. In September 2008 the Vienna Chamber Opera staged two ballet operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau , La Guirlande and Zéphyre . In December 2008 he staged in the Stadttheater Baden Baden near Vienna operetta season in Salzburg by Fred Raymond . In 2011 he staged two short operas at the Vienna Chamber Opera , Le pauvre matelot and Venus in Africa , in 2012 the musical Anatevka at the Cottbus State Theater , 2013 at the Kraków Opera House Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice as Ballet-Opéra, 2014 The Little Horror Shop at the Dresden State Operetta , 2015 A cage full of fools at the musical comedy of the Leipzig Opera .

Madia created the choreography for the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball several times (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010) . He was engaged as a choreographer for the Life Ball in Vienna in 2007, 2010 and 2011; In 2006, 2013 and 2015 he also directed the opening show. From 2015 to 2019 he designed and staged the Parieté Gala, an inclusion theater event in Berlin. Madia also sponsored the training of the first solo dancer of the Vienna State Ballet Davide Dato .

Artistic work (overview)

Musical theater direction

• Giuditta (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2003)
• Ain't Misbehavin ' (Chamber Opera Vienna 2006)
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2007)
• La Guirlande | Zéphire (Vienna Chamber Opera 2008)
• Season in Salzburg (Stadttheater Baden 2008)
• Le pauvre matelot | Venus in Africa (Vienna Chamber Opera 2011)
• Anatevka - Fiddler on the Roof (Staatstheater Cottbus 2012)
• Orphée et Eurydice (Opera Krakowska 2013)
• The small horror shop (State Operetta Dresden 2014)
• La Cage aux Folles (Leipzig Opera / Musical Comedy 2015)
• Carmen (Vanemuine Theater / Estonia 2015)
• Faust (Salzburg Festival 2016, choreography and co-director, director: Reinhard von der Thannen)
• Carmen (Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg 2017)
• The bat (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2018)
• Vienna Blood (Theater Vanemuine / Estonia 2018)
• The Merry Widow (St. Petersburg State Theater for Musical Comedy 2019)

Choreography and staging

• Play (Zurich Opera House 1995)
• Bolero (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2000)
• Gershwin (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2001)
• Giuseppe! (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2001)
• Can love be a sin? (Theater Basel 2002)
• Nudo (Volksoper Vienna 2004)
• Alice (Volksoper Vienna 2005)
• Sleeping Beauty (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2006)
• Alice's Wonderland (State Ballet Berlin 2007)
• Cinderella | Music: Rossini (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2007)
• Les demoiselles (theater accent 2007)
• The Nutcracker (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2008)
• Romeo and Juliet | Music: Tchaikovsky (Balletto di Milano 2009)
• Swan Lake (Teatr Wielki Łodz 2009)
• Chopin imaginaire (Cottbus State Theater 2009)
• Cinderella | Music: Rossini (Opera Krakowska 2010)
• OZ - The Wonderful Wizard (Staatsballett Berlin 2011, Theater Kosice 2019)
• Waltz wonderful! (Festival Wiltz, Luxembourg 2011)
• Cinderella | Music: Rossini (Balletto di Milano 2011)
• Harlequin dance comedy (Staatstheater Cottbus 2011)
• La fille mal gardée (Wroclaw Opera 2012)
• Il gatto del rabbino (Balletto di Roma 2012)
• Coppélia (Wroclaw Opera 2013)
• La dolce vita (Vanemuine Theater / Estonia 2014)
• Carnival of the Animals (State Ballet Berlin 2014)
• Don Juan (State Ballet Berlin 2014)
• Hansel & Gretel (State Ballet Berlin 2014)
• Swan Song (Béjart Ballet Lausanne 2016)
• Peter Pan (Croatian National Theater Zagreb 2016)
• Don Juan (Vanemuine Theater / Estonia 2016)
• Pinocchio (Bałtycka Opera Gdańsk 2017)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Croatian National Theater Zagreb 2019)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Opera Krakowska 2019)

choreography

• The Merry Widow (Zurich Opera House 1997)
• The Csárdásfürstin (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2002)
• Boccaccio (Volksoper Vienna 2003)
• Viennese Blood (Volksoper Vienna 2004)
• Countess Mariza (Mörbisch Sea Festival 2004)
• One night in Venice (Volksoper Vienna 2004)
• The Merry Widow (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2005)
• The Count of Luxembourg (Mörbisch Maritime Festival 2006)
• Wiener Blut (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2007)
• In the White Horse Inn (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2008)
• My Fair Lady (Mörbisch Seefestspiele 2009)
• The Tsarevich (Mörbisch Sea Festival 2010)
• The Gypsy Baron (Mörbisch Lake Festival 2011)
• Die Fledermaus (Mörbisch Seefestspiele 2012)
• My Fair Lady (Cologne Opera 2012)
• Lend me a tenor - Otello mustn't burst (Leipzig Opera / Musical Comedy 2013)

Awards

• 2006: "Golden Mask" (Poland) for Best Production Sleeping Beauty
• 2007: "Golden Mask" (Poland) for Best Director Cinderella
• 2008: “Golden Mask” (Poland) for Best Director Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• 2011: “Premio Anita Bucchi” for Cinderella , Best Light
• 2011: “Italia che danza” choreographer of the year

Web links

• Giorgio Madia - Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giorgio Madia, Now we are already forming a unit, now we are deepening our identity . In: Der neue Merker , 3/2004; Interview with Madia
2. ^ Giorgio Madia new ballet director of the Vienna Volksoper . ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Vienna Volksoper from March 3, 2003 (no longer available online)  
3. ↑ Premiere “Alice's Wonderland” . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 31, 2007; Premiere review
4. ↑ Alice in Wonderland with Joint and Bottom . In: BZ , September 11, 2007; criticism
5. ↑ Simply wonderful ... Online Musik Magazin, 2004; Performance review for DVD release
6. ^ Vienna lacks a first class ballet .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Tanznetz , July 28, 2007; Interview and portrait  
7. ^ Giorgio Madia: Faccio d'anzare l'amore perfetto . In: Corriere della Sera , January 24, 2009; Preliminary report and short portrait by Giorgio Madia
8. ^ Romeo e Giulietta production details and cast
9. ^ OZ - The Wonderful Wizard . State Ballet Berlin; Retrieved June 7, 2012
10. ↑ Ballet comedy from the full life .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , November 11, 2011; Premiere review  
11. ↑ Vienna Chamber Opera: “Ain't misbehavin '” - Fats Waller gives you wings . Performance review from February 20, 2006
12. ↑ Erotic landscape painting . Performance review from September 30, 2008
13. ↑ Le pauvre matelot | Venus in Africa Vienna Chamber Opera; Retrieved June 7, 2012
14. ↑ Parieté gala . Official website of the Parieté Gala. Retrieved November 24, 2016.