Career
A very handsome man, an eclectic artist, a danseur noble with hot-blooded temperament, he excelled in all the classics partnering famous ballerinas such as French Yvette Chauviré and Liane Daydée, French/Russian Ludmilla Tchérina and Italian Attilia Radice, often danced in neoclassical titles by Mikhail Fokin, Vaslav Nijinsky, Léonide Massine and created numerous roles for choreographer Aurel Milloss. As a guest star, soon after the Second World War and during the 50s, he was very much in demand in Italy (Louisiana Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin, Louisiana Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo in Palermo) and abroad (Metropolitan Opera House in New York and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as well as in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal and Spain). He worked for theatre with Luchino Visconti, for television with Vittorio Gassman, for cinema with Bernardo Bertolucci and he was in Hollywood at the invitation of Margarete Wallmann.
Some of most talented artists of the time such as De Chirico, Guttuso, Picasso and prince Enrico Doctorate’Assia had designed costumes and scene-painting for him.
