Giorgio Madia

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

• 2.1 Music Production
• 2.2 Choreography and Staging
• 2.3 choreography

Life

Stage career

Madia graduated from 1976 to 1984 training at the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 1984, he passed from his diploma as a ballet dancer in the production Le mariage du ciel et de l' enfer [ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ] choreographed by Roland Petit. He had his first engagement then 1984-1985 also at La Scala. His first solo game Madia danced there in Jungle, a choreography by Andy De Groat. From 1985 to 1988, Madia solo dancer with the Ballet du XXe siècle by Maurice Béjart at the opera house Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. With Béjart Madia was incorporated in 1987 to Lausanne, where Béjart had moved his company. From 1987 to 1988 he was principal dancer in the Béjart Ballet Lausanne.

This was followed by further commitments from 1988-1990 as a solo dancer in the United States, the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet. There Madia was seen in parts of the classical repertoire among other solo roles in works by George Balanchine, Robert Taylor, William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, and Richard Tanner. From 1988 to 1991 Madia went together with Rudolf Nureyev and soloists from the Ballet of the Paris Opera with Nureyev and Friends on a world tour, where he performed several times in two pas de deux with Nureyev, including the choreography La Pavane you More and Le Chant du Compagnon Errant.

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

Choreography and direction

1997 ended Giorgio Madia its active dance career. Madia has since worked as ballet master, choreographer and in recent years increasingly also 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 under the direction of Richard Wherlock Ballet Master and Choreographic Assistant at the Berlin Ballet at the Komische Oper.

In October 2000, he was artistic director and chief choreographer at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź.

He was the first ballet master of the newly founded Ballet Basel 2001. Since 2002 he has been chief choreographer of Mörbisch. In 2003 he took over at the new production of the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehár at short notice direct. From 2003 to 2005, Madia ballet director of the Vienna Volksoper. There sat Madia two separate full-length ballets. In March 2004, there had his choreography Nudo, with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Béla Fischer, Premiere. In January 2005, followed by Alice, a production based on themes by Lewis Carroll with music by Nino Rota. In addition, Madia took over the choreography for the operetta productions of Boccaccio, A Night in Venice and Vienna Blood. His Viennese production of Alice was shown under the title Alice 's Wonderland 2007 new choreography from the Berlin State Ballet also at the Komische Oper in Berlin.

The operetta The Merry Widow, (directed by Helmuth Lohner ) for which Giorgio Madia had the Zurich Opera House created the choreography in 1997, returned in 2004 to the board back; the recovery was recorded and released in 2004 as a DVD.

Since 2005, Madia has worked freelance. For the Teatr Wielki in May 2006 he choreographed the ballet Sleeping Beauty. This production was awarded the Golden Mask for the best production of the season 2005/2006. In May 2007 there followed the production of Cinderella, which was awarded in the 2006/2007 season with the Golden Mask in the categories of Best Director, Best Set and Best Costumes. In October 2008, Madia created in Łódź, the choreography for The Nutcracker. In the 2008/2009 season at the Balletto di Milano followed its own choreography of Romeo e Giulietta, by William Shakespeare with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In September 2009 the premiere of his ballet evening Chopin Imaginaire with music by Frédéric Chopin followed the Staatstheater Cottbus. This was followed by another full-length productions of OZ - The Wonderful Wizard (2011, for the Berlin State Ballet ), Harlequin ( a dance comedy for the Staatstheater Cottbus, Ferdinand Hérold La fille mal gardée (2012 ) and Coppélia (2013 ), both for the opera house Wrocław)

Since 2006, Madia is also active as a director in musical theater. His debut as a director took over Madia in February 2006 with a production of the musical revue Is not Misbehavin ' with the music of Fats Waller in the Vienna Chamber Opera. In December 2007, Madia conducted its first opera direction in the production of Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź. This production was in the 2007/2008 season also awarded the Golden Mask for Best Director. In September 2008, followed in the Vienna Chamber Opera, the productions of two ballet operas of Jean -Philippe Rameau, La garland and Zéphyre. In December 2008, he staged at the Stadttheater Baden in Baden near Vienna, the operetta season in Salzburg by Fred Raymond. In 2011, he staged at the Vienna Chamber Opera two short operas, Le pauvre matelot and Venus in Africa, 2012 at the Staatstheater Cottbus the musical Fiddler on the Roof, 2013 at the Opera House Krakow Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice as Ballet Opéra and 2014 Little Shop of Horrors at the Dresden State Operetta.

Madia created multiple times ( 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 ), the choreography for the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball. He was in the years 2007, 2010 and 2011 committed as a choreographer to Life Ball in Vienna; 2006, 2007 and 2013 he also took over the direction of the opening show.

Artistic works (overview)

Music Production

• " Giuditta " ( Mörbisch 2003)
• " Is not Misbehavin ' " ( Chamber Opera Vienna 2006)
• " Les Contes d' Hoffmann " ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2007)
• " La garland | Zephyrs " ( Chamber Opera Vienna 2008)
• " Season in Salzburg" ( Stadttheater Baden 2008)
• " Le pauvre matelot | Venus in Africa" ​​( Chamber Opera Vienna 2011)
• " Fiddler on the Roof - Fiddler on the Roof" ( Staatstheater Cottbus 2012)
• " Orphée et Eurydice " ( Opera Krakowska 2013)
• " Little Shop of Horrors " ( Dresden State Operetta 2014)

Choreography and Staging

• "Piece" ( Zurich Opera House 1995)
• "Bolero" ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2000)
• " Gershwin " ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2001)
• " Giuseppe " ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2001)
• " Can love be a sin? " ( Theater Basel 2002)
• " Nudo " ( Volksoper Vienna 2004 )
• "Alice" ( Volksoper Vienna 2005 )
• " Sleeping Beauty" ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2006)
• "Alice 's Wonderland " ( Berlin State Ballet, 2007)
• "Cinderella" | Music: Rossini ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2007)
• " Les demoiselles " ( Theater Akzent 2007)
• "The Nutcracker" ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2008)
• " Romeo and Juliet" | Music: Tchaikovsky ( Balletto di Milano 2009)
• "Swan Lake" ( Teatr Wielki Łódź 2009)
• "Chopin Imaginaire " ( Staatstheater Cottbus 2009)
• "Cinderella" | Music: Rossini ( Teatr Wielki Krakow 2010)
• " OZ - The Wonderful Wizard" ( Berlin State Ballet, 2011)
• " Waltz Wonderful!" (Festival of Wiltz, Luxembourg 2011)
• "Cinderella" | Music: Rossini ( Balletto di Milano 2011)
• "Harlequin " Dance Comedy ( Staatstheater Cottbus 2011)
• " La fille mal gardée " (Opera Wroclaw 2012)
• "Il gatto del rabbino " ( Balletto di Roma 2012)
• " Coppélia " (Opera Wroclaw 2013)

Choreography

• " The Merry Widow" ( Zurich Opera House 1997)
• " The Gypsy Princess " ( Mörbisch 2002)
• " Boccaccio " ( Volksoper Vienna 2003 )
• "Wiener Blut" ( Volksoper Vienna 2004 )
• " Countess Maritza " ( Mörbisch 2004)
• " A Night in Venice " ( Volksoper Vienna 2004 )
• " The Merry Widow" ( Mörbisch 2005)
• "The Count of Luxembourg " ( Mörbisch 2006)
• "Wiener Blut" ( Mörbisch 2007)
• " The White Horse Inn " ( Mörbisch 2008)
• "My Fair Lady" ( Mörbisch 2009)
• " The Tsarevich " ( Mörbisch 2010)
• "The Gypsy Baron" ( Mörbisch 2011)
• "Die Fledermaus" ( Mörbisch 2012)
• "My Fair Lady" (Opera Cologne 2012)
• " Lend me a Tenor - Lend Me a Tenor " ( Leipzig Opera | Musical Comedy 2013)

Awards

• 2006: " Golden Mask" (Poland ) for the best production of " 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