Giorgio Madia (born 29 July 1965) is an Italian choreographer and stage director active in the fields of opera, ballet, operetta, musical and event.
[1] During these years he danced leading roles of the classical repertoire, as well as many neoclassical and contemporary solo parts in works by George Balanchine, Robert Taylor, William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, and Richard Tanner among others.
[2] In this gala program Madia performed José Limón's choreography The Moor's Pavane and Béjart's Le Chant du Compagnon Errant with Nureyev himself.
In 2002 Madia was appointed chief choreographer of the Open Air Operetta Festival Seefestspiele Mörbisch near Vienna and filled this function until 2012.
[9] Alongside the classics of the ballet repertoire ‒ Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet[10] and La fille mal gardée ‒ are full-length dance works based on individual concepts: Nudo, Alice's Wonderland, Cinderella, OZ – The Wonderful Wizard[11] Chopin imaginaire, Pinocchio, Don Juan based on Christoph Willibald Gluck's ballet music), Vienna Waltz Night as a tribute to Johann Strauss, or the dance comedy Harlequin,[12] which plays with the tradition of the Italian Commedia dell'arte.
The ballet production of Cinderella, also for the Grand Theatre in Łódź was awarded the Golden Mask in the categories of ‘best director’, ‘best set’ and ‘best costumes’ in the season 2006/2007.