Mauro Bigonzetti Premiere |
On the heels of his 2007 audience favorite Oltremare, Mauro Bigonzetti returns to NYCB to create his fourth work. Principal Choreographer of Aterballeto and Italy’s most celebrated choreographer, Bigonzetti has found his own unique style through a vigorous, passionate, bold brand of Italian dance that is rooted in the neoclassical idiom. He will work with a commissioned score by longtime collaborator Bruno Moretti, whose work has been heard on the theatrical stage, on television, and in movies.
June 10 (World Premiere), 12 (2 PM & 8 PM), 18, 19
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Commissioned score by Bruno Moretti
Scenic design by Santiago Calatrava
Costume design by Marc Happel
Lighting design by Mark Stanley
Born in Rome in 1960, Mauro Bigonzetti trained at the Rome Opera Ballet School and became a company member of the Rome Opera Ballet in 1978, dancing works by Roland Petit, Leonide Massine, and Aurel Milloss, among others. In 1982, he joined Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia, where he danced works by George Balanchine, Glen Tetley, Antony Tudor, Alvin Ailey, Jiri Kylián, Donald Byrd, William Forsythe, August Bournonville, Amedeo Amodio, Jennifer Muller, and Lucinda Childs. “All of them have influenced me,” he explains, “but the most important have been Jiri Kylián and William Forsythe. I relate to their aesthetic and choreographic inspiration.”
Mr. Bigonzetti retired from dancing at the age of 30 to pursue choreography, creating ballets for Aterballetto and many other dance companies and festivals in Italy and around the world, including the English National Ballet, Ballet Teatro Argentino, La Scala Ballet, Ballet du Capitole (Toulouse), Deutsche Opera (Berlin), Kirov Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet. He was the artistic director of Aterballetto from 1997 to 2008, recently resigning to pursue choreography full-time. He has choreographed three works for NYCB: Vespro (2002), In Vento (2006), and Oltremare (2008), all to scores by Bruno Moretti.
Bruno Moretti (b. 1957) studied piano and composition at the St. Cecilia Conservatoire in Rome. He then studied with Nino Rota and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna. He made his conducting debut at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome with Madama Butterfly. He has also conducted the orchestras of Teatro La Fenice in Venice, San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Comunale in Florence, and the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, as well as in Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Padova, and Bari. Abroad, Mr. Moretti conducted at the Royal Festival Hall and at the Barbican Center in London, at the Brucknerfestival in Linz, and in China, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States. Since 1991, Mr. Moretti has focused on composition. Among his many works are his ballets Comoedia and Don Giovanni, emozioni di un Mito; his opera Lady E; an orchestral piece, il bestiario del XXI secolo, for the Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra; and the soundtrack for the film La ragione di un sogno. He composed the scores to three ballets in NYCB’s repertory: Vespro (2002), In Vento (2006), and Oltremare (2008), all choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti.
