Margarete Wallmann

Margarete Wallmann, also Margaret or Margarita or Margherita, also Wallman ( born June 22 or July 22, 1901 or 1904 in Berlin or Vienna, † 2 May 1992, Monaco) was a dancer, choreographer, stage designer, and opera director. With the length of their career and the number of their productions she takes among opera directors a top position.

Life

The place of birth and dates of birth are as uncertain as Wallmann the details of their family of origin. The memoirs Les balcons du ciel, which made them appear in 1976 under the name Margarita Wallmann, report this nothing, but are limited to the representation of events related to their later career as a choreographer and director.

Wallmann began as a dancer. After a classical education at Eduardova Eugenia (1882-1960) in Berlin, and later with Heinrich Kröller (1880-1930) and Anna Ornelli in Munich, she studied from 1923 with Mary Wigman in Dresden and went with the troops to the Hanya Holm among other and Palucca were on tour. In 1928 she traveled to New York, where he gave lectures on Wigman's expressionist dance. From 1929 she was head of the Wigman School in Berlin. In Edith Türckheim she had her most talented student who even the Wigman style further contributed as a studio manager later. In 1930 she founded her own troupe, the dancer - collective, which already counted 37 members in the following year. The first sensational production was the " movement drama" Orpheus Dionysos by Felix Emmel with Wallmann as Eurydice and Ted Shawn as Orpheus. Shawn committed Wallmann then for a teaching position at the he co-founded the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts in Los Angeles. 1931 brought the troops Emmels "Dance mystery game" The Last Judgement at the Salzburg Festival for the premiere. Also in the following years Wallmann worked in Salzburg, was able after a serious accident even though no longer dance.

In 1933 she moved to Vienna and from 1934 was ballet mistress at the city's Opera House. In 1938, after the Anschluss, she was dismissed because of her Jewish ancestry and her husband Hugo as well Burghauser with which she, however, was already living in divorce. During this eventually emigrated on 12 September 1938, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Italy to Canada and the USA, Wallmann was engaged at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he established a ballet company on.

1949 returned Wallmann back to Europe and took over the leadership of the Ballet of La Scala, Milan, with whom she worked, among other things 1958 Vita dell'uomo by Alberto Savinio. In addition, she led from 1952 directing, among major operas were several with Maria Callas. They staged, among others 1953 Medea by Luigi Cherubini, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, 1954 Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi and 1958, Turandot by Giacomo Puccini with Birgit Nilsson.

Wallmann was also involved in major world and European premieres, including 1955 David by Darius Milhaud, 1955 The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev, 1957 Les Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, 1958 Murder in the Cathedral of Ildebrando Pizzetti, 1962 Atlantida by Manuel de Falla and L' opéra d' Aran by Gilbert Becaud, 1969 Devils of Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki and Andrea del Sarto by Jean -Yves Daniel - Lesur and 1974 Antoine et Cléopatre by Emmanuel Bonde Ville.

Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda of them staged in 1966 at the Metropolitan Opera and Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz, Un ballo in maschera and Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi at the Opéra National de Paris. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin she staged Turandot by Giacomo Puccini and The Force of Destiny by Giuseppe Verdi.

Movies

Memoirs

  • Les balcons du ciel. Mémoires. Robert Laffont, 1976.
  • Edition under the title: Sous le ciel de l' opéra. Mémoires. Felin, 2004. ISBN 2-86645-562-2
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