Michele Tiziano

Michele Tiziano (* 1946 in Grömitz as Michael Tietz ) is a German ballet dancer , ballet teacher, choreographer , impresario , event manager and tenor .

Life

Ballet Dancers

At the age of eight, Michele Tiziano began ballet training at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. In his first year of training he was given the children's lead role of Heinerle in the operetta Der fidele Bauer by Leo Fall because of his special talent for the voice . He later received his ballet training at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and at the Munich University of Music and Theater with Gustav Blank (1908–1987). He also studied in Leningrad and Moscow as well as in Paris. At the age of 18 Tiziano received an engagement as the first solo dancer at the Royal National Ballet ( Het Nationale Ballet ) in Amsterdam. In 1973 the Deutsche Oper Berlin hired him as a star dancer, where he also choreographed several ballet performances.

Ballet teacher

In 1980 he founded the International Ballet Center Berlin (IBC GmbH) and organized and staged numerous guest performances and tours with international ballet companies. These include the Ballet Opéra National de Paris, the Kirov Ballet , the Bolshoi Ballet , the Ballet of the Hamburg State Opera , the St. Petersburg State Ballet, the State Ballet Moscow, the Royal Flanders Ballet Antwerp, the Ballet Royal de Wallonie and the ballet of the National Academic Theater of Opera and the State Ballet in Sofia. He was able to attract stars such as Maja Plitsezkaja , Maria Brissonskaya , Nadia Pavlova , Margot Fonteyn , Paolo Bortoluzzi and Rudolf Nurejew for these events.

impresario

In 1990 Tiziano founded the Concert Forum Berlin and organized his own music productions, opera guest performances and concert evenings. Guests were u. a .: Fiorenza Cossotto , Adriana Maliponte , Katia Ricciarelli , Monika Curth-Stefano , Anna Moffo , Tamara Kucenko , Maria Dragoni , Paola Romanò , Celestina Casapietra , Luigi Alva , Piero Cappuccilli , René Kollo and Giuseppe Di Stefano .

For Rudolf Nureyev Tiziano was eleven years the manager.

tenor

1993 saw Giuseppe Di Stefano , the bel canto -voice Tiziano and promoted him. Di Stefano also recommended that he adopt the stage name Michele Tiziano. Tiziano took vocal training with the tenors Mario Gallo , Ruggiero Orofino , Celestina Casapietra and Peter Gougaloff . In 1993 Tiziano went on a European tour with Anna Maria Pizzoli , Paola Romanò and Adriana Maliponte . At the reopening of the Pompeii arena , he appeared as Calaf with Paola Romanò in Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot . There followed appearances and a. in Verona, Treviso, Rome, Milan and Naples. In 1998 Tiziano concentrated increasingly on classical concerts. He produced a. a. the "Verdi-Puccini-Rossini-Gala" and obliged for its performances a. a. the conductors Stanislav Gorkovenko , Enrico de Mori , Carlo Palleschi and Silvano Frontalini .

Art collector

In 1970 Tiziano received a series of paintings from his father that belonged to his late grandfather, with which Tiziano founded and later expanded his collection of old masters as well as German and French impressionists and expressionists . During his stays in Moscow and Leningrad , he discovered Russian Suprematism and Cubism and expanded his collection.

Web links

• official homepage

literature

• Ilse Eliza Zellermayer: Three tenors and a soprano: My life for the opera (Book on Demand, March 3, 2015), 252 pages.