Ballet

Giorgio Madia: THE WIZARD OF OZ

Little Dorothy lives with her uncle Henry and Aunt Emma in Kansas. During a big storm, a tornado transports her to a distant land. Dorotka wants to return home, but the only one who can help her is the great wizard Oz from the Emerald City. And so Dorotka sets out on a yellow brick road to the wizard. Along the way, she meets Scarecrow, who longs to gain a brain, a Tin Woodman, who would like to have a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who longs for courage. Dorotka and her friends discover that Oz is, in fact, an ordinary person without magical abilities. Nevertheless, he gives the Scarecrow brain, heart to the Tin Woodman, and courage to the lion, because they actually already possess them.

Giorgio Madia, a native of Milan, made his debut as a ballet soloist in the famous La Scale. Later, he was a member ofcmajor ballet ensembles from the San Francisco Ballet, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, the Zurich Ballett, the Royal Ballett Brussel, or even a soloist at the Paris Opera alongside the famous Rudolf Nureyev, he went to the world tour. For his ballet works he received several times the award of  "Golden Mask" in Poland, or even the title "Choreographer of recent years" in Italy in 2011. His best-known works include "Stück" (Opernhaus Zürich 1995), "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?" (Theater Basel 2002), Alice's Wonderland "(Staatsballett Berlin 2007), Romeo und Julia (Balletto di Milano 2009), OZ - The Wonderful Wizard (Staatsballett Berlin 2011).