Renato Zanella

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Renato Zanella (born June 6, 1961 in Verona ) is an Italian ballet dancer , choreographer and opera director .

Life

Zanella studied classical dance in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he went to Rosella Hightower in Cannes at the Center de Danse International. There he completed his ballet training. In 1982 he got his first engagement as a dancer in Basel with Heinz Spoerli . In 1985 he switched to the Stuttgart Ballet . In 1993 the ballet director Marcia Haydée made his appointment as permanent choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet. In 1995 he was appointed ballet director and chief choreographer at the Vienna State Opera . He held this post for ten years until the end of the 2004/2005 season. From 2001 to 2005 Renato Zanella also acted as artistic director of the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera . From 2005 to 2011 Renato Zanella worked as a freelance artist worldwide. In September 2011 Renato Zanella was appointed director of the Greek National Ballet in Athens. In addition, Zanella directed the ballet ensemble of the Fondazione Arena di Verona. Since August 2016 he has been director of the national ballet of the Bucharest State Opera .

Works

Renato Zanella's first choreography was The Other Side in 1989 , which he showed as part of the Young Choreographers performance of the Stuttgart Noverre Society. His next choreographies, Distance (1989) and Ein Tag (1990), were also premiered in this context. The other side was adopted by the Stuttgart Ballet in its repertoire. In 1991 this was followed by Stati d'animo for Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun as well as a triptych that was performed at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival . At the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's opera Perseus und Andromeda (staging: Gerald Thomas ), Renato Zanella was responsible for the singers' movements. Since 1991 he has created several solos for students from the John Cranko School who took part in the Prix ​​de Lausanne , and for the workshop series Behind the Scenes of Ballet , since 1992 he has created small pieces for Birgit Keil , Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun and Christoph Lechner . In April 1992 Renato Zanella's first full-length ballet, Mann im Schatten , premiered in Stuttgart. In the summer of 1992 he choreographed Voyage for Vladimir Malakhov .

For the Stuttgart Ballet he also created Empty Place in November 1992 , Black Angels in March 1993 and his second full-length ballet, Mata Hari , with Marcia Haydée in the title role in December 1993 . In June 1993 he created Apollon for the John Cranko School and Vladimir Malakhov , in December 1993 a concert duo for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. In December 1994 he wrote Watching Waters for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo , in April 1995 Pieces of Earth was premiered by Introdans , Love Beyond in September 1996 , Ostarrichi in October 1999 , Harlekin & Colombine in September 2001 and Concerto Italiano in September 2003 . For the ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in February 1998 he created ... shadows of sehnsucht ... , Last Blues , in October 1999 he was responsible for the choreography for Moses and Aron at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (production: Götz Friedrich ). In 2003 he choreographed the dances for the opera Die Zauberin for a co-production of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg (production: David Pountney ). In 2005 he choreographed The Seven Deadly Sins for the Neue Oper Wien , and created the choreography for Masquerade for a co-production of the Bregenz Festival and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (production: David Pountney). At the gala for August Bournonville's 200th birthday in Copenhagen, he presented From Vienna With Love .

In the 2005/2006 season Renato Zanella choreographed the ballet Der Spielmann for Birgit Keil in Karlsruhe (set: rosalie). Empty Place was added to the repertoire of the Teatro Municipal de Lima, the full-length ballet Wolfgang Amadé for the Madlenianum Opera Theater in Belgrade . In November 2007 R. Z. choreographed the full-length ballet Peer Gynt for the ballet of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma . In April 2008 he created "Amandi" for the ballet of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . In 2008 he staged and choreographed “Wallfrau”, a dance evening that deals with aspects of the biography of Margarethe Wallmann at the Odeon Theater in Vienna. Brishen was created in 2011 for the flamenco ensemble “Compañía Suite Española” . He choreographed the pieces Apollo and Firebird for the Fondazione Arena di Verona in 2011. Also in 2011 the choreography of Barocco . As part of the Giuseppe Verdi anniversary 2013 Cercando Verdi for the Fondazione Arena di Verona.

Renato Zanella first introduced himself as a choreographer in October 1993 with Voyage at the Vienna State Opera . His first creation directly for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, La Chambre , was premiered in February 1994. In March 1994 the Vienna State Opera Ballet from Stuttgart took over Empty Place . For his first premiere as ballet director of the Vienna State Opera in September 1995, Renato chose Zanella Concertante Duo . In December 1995 he created Mon Euridice for Vladimir Malakhov . With the Stravinsky evening Symphony , Movements , Sacre , released in April 1996, Zanella choreographed his first complete evening for the company . Black Angels premiered in May 1996 and a new version of Mata Hari followed at the Vienna Volksoper in June 1996 . In February 1997 he brought out Elements at the Vienna Odeon, in March 1997 he created Alles Walzer .

Love Beyond was part of the Odeon's off ballet program in June 1997. In November 1997 Memento Mori was premiered in cooperation with Vienna modern , in December 1997 he brought out Laus Deo . In March 1998 the world premiere of the full-length ballet Wolfgang Amadé took place, in April 1998 he created The Seven Last Words for "OsterKlang Wien '98", in June 1998 Mythos for the "Lower Austria Donaufestival '98".

In November 1998 his version of Maurice Ravel's Boléro premiered at the Vienna State Opera . His version of Cinderella to music by Johann Strauss with costumes by Christian Lacroix was released in December 1999 at the Vienna State Opera. In November 2013, his Cinderella was added to the repertoire of the local ballet troupe at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires .

In 1999 he also choreographed solos for Carla Fracci and Manuel Legris . In March 2000 he created the ballet Beethoven Opus 73 . In November 2000 he presented his new version of The Nutcracker , in April 2002 of Spartacus . In June 2003 he choreographed Sensi (world premiere at the Beethovenfest in Bonn ), in December 2003 he presented his new version of Kadettenball and Duke's Nuts . For the Diaghilew evening (premiere: March 23, 2005) Zanella choreographed the ballets Petruschka (music: Igor Stravinsky , set design: Christian Ludwig Attersee , costumes: Christof Cremer) and Renard (music: Stravinsky, set design: Hermann Nitsch , costumes: Anne Marie Lassenstein ).

In his role as ballet director of the Greek National Ballet, he choreographed a. a. In 2013 the production "Journey to eternity" to music by Eleni Karaindrou and also in 2013 the full-length ballet Romeo and Juliet to music by Prokofiev with costumes by Celia Kritharioti .

Special dance initiatives

In 2000 Renato Zanella started the dance initiative “off ballet special”, in which disabled and non-disabled members of the cultural association “Ich bin o. K.” And members of the Vienna State Opera Ballet dance together. In addition to appearances in its own matinees in the Vienna State Opera, the highlights of the “off ballet special” include participation in the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball in 2001 and a guest performance at the Warsaw National Opera in 2004. At the Greek National Opera, Zanella established the "Dancebox Project" for young ballet dancers in times of crisis who were taught free of charge.

Choreographies for opera and operetta

In addition, Renato Zanella choreographed the ballets in the operas Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (production: David Pountney), Le prophète (production: Hans Neuenfels ) and Guillaume Tell (production: David Pountney) at the Vienna State Opera , directed movement for Don Giovanni ( Production: Roberto de Simone ) and Roméo et Juliette (production: Jürgen Flimm ), choreographed for Jenůfa (production: David Pountney), Der Riese vom Steinfeld (production: Jürgen Flimm), Jonny plays (production: Günter Krämer ) and Daphne ( Production: Nicola Joël ) and studied the choreography of Le nozze di Figaro (new production of the production by Giorgio Strehler ). In December 2007 the opera La juive had its premiere at the Zurich Opera House , for which Zanella choreographed the ballet interludes. Zanella also choreographed the dance interludes in the opera A Flowering Tree by John Adams , which premiered in May 2008 at the Chicago Opera Theater in a staging by Nicola Raab . In 2011 the opera Die Trojans premiered in a production by David Pountney at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with dance performances by Zanella. In May 2011 the operetta The Merry Widow had its premiere in a production by Marco Arturo Marelli and ballet interludes by Zanella at the Vienna Volksoper , in 2012 Prince Igor with choreographies by Zanella in a production by David Pountney at the Zurich Opera House.

Festivals

Zanella has repeatedly worked for festivals: in 1997, his creation Wiener Blut premiered at the ImPuls Tanz Wien 97 festival . In 2000 the ballet Via Salis was created for Altaussee and the choreography for Adiemus Live! For the VOESTival in Linz . With Karl Jankins, 2001 for the Attergauer Kultursommer Renard , Trois Gymnopédies and The Story of the Soldier , for the VOESTival 2003 Linz The Creatures of Prometheus and Carnival of the Animals with Sir Peter Ustinov , 2006 with Lalo Shifrin , 2007 with Ute Lemper and 2008 with George Fenton . Since 2009 Zanella has been artistic director for the dance section of the Festival of the Aegean on the island of Syros in Greece. For this festival he choreographed a. a. Zorba , Medea´s choice (2011) and Electra (2018), all three works based on music by Mikis Theodorakis . In summer 2013 he was responsible for the choreography of the operetta Der Bettelstudent at the Mörbisch Seefestspiele .

Opera direction

In 2009 Renato Zanella expanded his artistic activity to include opera directing: his first work in this regard, Così fan tutte at the Attersee Klassik Festival , met with great approval from the public and the press. In 2010 Zanella directed Bizet's Carmen at the sixth Festival of the Aegean on the island of Syros , where he is artistic director for the dance division. At the Festival of the Aegean 2011 he staged La traviata . In January 2012 Faust premiered in a production by Zanella at the Athens Concert Hall in Athens and in 2013 I vespri siciliani for the Greek National Opera .

Television broadcasts

Zanella choreographed L'Enfantillage (1994), the Prozess-Polka und Perpetuum mobile (1995), the Csárdás from Ritter Pásmán and the Waltz Marien-Klänge (2000), the Harlequin Polka and The Goblin for television broadcasts of the Vienna Philharmonic 's New Year's Concerts (2001), the Hellenic Polka (2003), Fata Morgana and An der Schöne blau Donau (2005). For the New Year's Concert 2010 he choreographed the Polka Mazur Ein Herz, ein Sinn and the waltz Morgenblätter . For the Vienna Opera Ball , An der Schöne blau Donau and the Opern-Soiree-Polka (1996), the Carnevals Ambassadors and the March in D major (1997), Thousand and One Nights and Persian March (1998), Roses from the South were created und Banditen-Galopp (1999), the Opera Masked Ball Quadrille and Freikugeln (2000), Seviliana and Galop from Le Trouvère (2001), Die Schönbrunner (2002), Wo die Lemronen Blu'n and Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (2003 ), Carmen-Quadrille and Hopser-Polka (2004). He has also choreographed a solo for Vladimir Malakhov (Louis XIV.), Simona Noja (Strauss incontra Verdi), Roberto Bolle (Ave Verum), which was also shown at a festive event in the Vatican , Giuseppe Picone (Dying Swan) and Shoko Nakamura (Ombra), for the feature film Jedermanns Fest (director: Fritz Lehner ) and the World Sports Awards of the Century at the Vienna State Opera and the Toyota Millennium Concert in Tokyo .

In 2013 Recycling Medea had a film by Asteris Kutulas world premiere, in which the ancient Greek tragedy becomes a metaphor for the current tragedy in Greece and Europe. The ballet story of the desperate mother who eventually murdered her own children is based on Euripides ' play, the music is by Mikis Theodorakis , the choreography by Zanella.

Juror

In 1995 and 1999 Renato Zanella was appointed to the jury of the Prix ​​de Lausanne dance competition , in 1998 he was a jury member of the Concours International de Danse de Paris , in 1999 of the Concours International de Chorégraphie Classique in Paris, the International Ballet Competition of Luxembourg and the choreographer Competition in Hanover (as in 2007), in 2000 he was Vice President of the 2nd International Ballet Competition in St. Pölten and a member of the jury of the Monaco Danses Dances Forum, 2001 Honorary President of the ÖTR Contest for Ballet and Contemporary Dance in Vienna and a juror at the competitions in Luxembourg, Helsinki (Choreography Competition) and at the Prix ​​Dom Pérignon of the Hamburg Ballet.

Controversy about the Wörterseebühne

In 2003 Renato Zanella was appointed director of the festival on the Klagenfurt lake stage , which was to be founded on the initiative of Governor Jörg Haider . In his activity, which was initially contractually agreed for 3 years, Zanella was to establish Klagenfurt with the Wörtherseebühne as a festival city. In the 2004 season, Zanella, who until 2005 acted as a consultant under unclear circumstances, de facto acted as managing director of the operating company, according to witness statements before the investigative committee. Because free tickets worth € 880,000 were issued, the 2004 season was not very successful economically. Renato Zanella brought u. a. Tosca-amore disperato by Lucio Dalla and Spartacus in his own staging and choreography on the Wörtherseebühne, both productions were enthusiastically received by the premiere audience. The musical Tosca caused a loss of € 2,122,899, a federal subsidy planned for three years was used up in full in 2004: At the time of the review, the operating company had negative equity of € 1,247,899. The production of the musical "Napoleon" planned for 2005 was not implemented for economic reasons. As a result, there was criticism of the management of the Seebühne, who could not present a balance sheet, and requests to resign Zanella. After the loss of € 2.1 million in the 2004 season became known, the operating company of the floating stage was dissolved. By dissolving the operating company, an attempt was made to terminate the contract with Zanella. However, Zanella initially insisted on the continuation of his existing contract and agreed two weeks later to terminate it, regardless of the poor results he was responsible for in the 2004 season, but after paying a severance payment of allegedly € 180,000. to. In the course of 2005 the total of the known costs of the floating stage rose to € 3.9 million.

In a specially scheduled press conference by the chief public prosecutor Gottfried Kranz, it was announced that the controversy surrounding the Wörterseebühne did not involve any criminal offenses and that the proceedings against the near-director Zanella and the Seebühnen managing director Bernhard Sapetschnig had been discontinued.

Honors

In 1995 he was awarded the prize for the best Italian choreographer abroad by the magazine Danza & Danza at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice . In 2000 he was awarded the Premio Internazionale Gino Tani in Rome for his choreographic achievements , and in 2001 in St. Pölten with the Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art . In 2001 Danza & Danza awarded him the annual award for Best Artistic Director . Renato Zanella has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art . For the full-length choreography by Peer Gynt for the Balletto dell'Opera di Roma he received the prize for the best new production in Italy in 2007. In February 2012 he was awarded the professional title of Professor by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture in Vienna.

literature

  • Renate Wagner (documentation): Zanella. Interim balance. Designed by Ingeborg Tichy-Luger. Holzhausen, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85493-027-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Entry in the Austrian music lexicon
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  6. ^ Berlin / State Ballet: Ballet Gala in the Deutsche Oper , September 14, 2013
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  8. ↑ Mastery and Renato Zanella's ?? The minstrel ?? ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), www.tanznetz.de from March 2, 2006
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  10. ↑ OLFGANG AMADÉ by Renato Zanella ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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  14. ↑ http://www.larena.it/stories/328_appuntamenti/507647_renato_zanella_va_cercandoverdi_nelle_sue_sinfonie/  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.larena.it  
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  18. ↑ http://www.attersee-christian-ludwig.at/de/buehne-raum
  19. ↑ http://www.nationalopera.gr/en/event/journey-to-eternity-/
  20. ↑ http://www.nationalopera.gr/en/event/romaios-kai-ioulietta-/
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  22. ↑ Disabled people open the Vienna Opera Ball , Tagesspiegel from February 19, 2001
  23. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20040927_OTS0036/ovationen-fuer-off-ballet-special-der-wiener-staatsoper-in-warschau
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  26. ↑ http://www.deutscheoperberlin.de/?page=person_detail&iduser=21991&language=de_DE
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  29. ↑ voestival - Renato Zanella ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ^ Festival of the Aegean 2011
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  32. ↑ Faust staged con Renato Zanella ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalopera.gr
  33. ↑ http://www.megaron.gr/default.asp?la=2&pid=5&evID=1320
  34. ^ Ballet for the New Years Concert in Valentino costumes
  35. ^ Renato Zanella - Filmography
  36. ↑ ( http://recycling-medea.com/ )
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  38. ↑ a b Wörtherseebühne: Investigations against Zanella , Der Standard, May 11, 2006
  39. ^ Zanella becomes director of the Wörtherseebühne , Der Standard, November 11, 2006
  40. ^ Witnesses attribute Zanella de facto executive role , Der Standard, May 16, 2006
  41. ↑ a b Small Chronicle of the Carinthian Scandals ( Memento from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , August 26, 2012
  42. ↑ Discussions about Wörtherseebühne: SPÖ and ÖVP for suspending the 2005 season! , News, January 10, 2005
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  44. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20040701_OTS0284/zanellas-spartacus-inszenierung-feierte-premiere
  45. ↑ 14.1 .: Seebühne is threatened with bankruptcy , Der Standard, January 21, 2005
  46. ↑ a b Wörtherseebühne: Hick-Hack about "renunciation" of directorship , Der Standard, January 20, 2005
  47. ↑ Decision about the future of the Wörtherseebühne postponed again , Der Standard, January 13, 2005
  48. ^ Wörthersee: Society of the stage dissolved , Die Presse
  49. ↑ Wörtherseebühne: decision postponed again , Der Standard, January 17, 2007
  50. ^ Silence ( memento of October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , March 4, 2006
  51. ↑ 26.1 .: Silence about Zanella compensation , Der Standard, February 2, 2005
  52. ↑ Commentary by the others: Kärntner Kalkulationskünstler , Der Standard, March 8, 2005
  53. ↑ Report of the investigative committee of the Carinthian state parliament regarding the review of the financial expenditures of the state of Carinthia at the lake stage ( memento of the original from October 18, 2013 in the Internet archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB), p. 4 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spittal.gruene.at
  54. ^ Wörtherseebühne: Proceedings against Zanella discontinued , Der Standard, September 26, 2006
  55. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20011010_OTS0189/renato-zanella-erhielt-das-oesterreichische-ehrenkreuz-fuer-wissenschaft-und-kunst
  56. ↑ http://www.danzaedanzaweb.com/4-5.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Zanella, Renato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ballet dancer, choreographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona