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DESPEDIMOS A PATRICE CHÉREAU
En medio de la euforia del Festival, una noticia trajo un manto de tristeza: murió el maestro Patrice Chéreau. Para los que amamos esta actividad, se fue un hombre imprescindible. Revolucionó la opera con su osada lectura de Wagner, fue un notable director de cine, un impresionante director teatral y un gran actor. Lo habíamos programado en el FIBA pasado y debió cancelar porque se le había desatado la enfermedad.
Recuerdo con cariño su entusiasmo cuando al restablecerse me pidió, con un entusiasmo adolescente, poder presentarse en Buenos Aires. Patrice estaba muy ligado a nuestra Ciudad. Vino de vacaciones y compartimos una bellísima cena y planeamos cómo hacerlo. Quería recuperar lo que la enfermedad le había impedido. Al tiempo, lo conseguimos con el apoyo del servicio cultural francés, el Cultural San Martin y el Ministerio de Cultura porteño y se presentó haciendo una brillante lectura de una parte de "Los hermanos Karamazov" de Dostoievski que emocionó al público.
Me quedo con su alegría en la cena posterior a la función donde disfrutó de haber podido, al fin, presentarse frente al público porteño. Algo que deseaba con toda su fuerza. Qué bueno que pudo hacerlo y qué bueno que pudimos verlo. Deja una obra enorme en libros, películas, óperas y obras de teatros (afortunadamente muchas filmadas).
Un innovador y artista único. Y una bella persona.
Darío Lopérfido
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21 Oct 2013 ... AND MANY MORE
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21 Oct 2013 A GREAT FESTIVAL CAME TO AN END
74 thousand people in total attended the shows, activities, meetings and screenings programmed by the ninth edition of the Festival, attractive for the artistic quality and risk of the national and international productions presented, the inclusion of new sections and venues to the ever-lively Buenos Aires cultural and theatrical circuit (a total of 27 venues across nearly the entire city). Outstanding figures of international theatre in the 21st century such as German director Thomas [...]
On the last day of a memorable Festival with a massive turnout – with almost all performances sold out – 36 top-notch national productions and 20 international ones (performed by companies from Germany, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Congo, France, Italy, Mexico, Poland, United Kingdom and Uruguay), and the presence of world-renowned figures of theatre, there is still a chance to see two European plays. One is the Polish “III Furie”, staged by Modjeska Theatre (at Sala Casacuberta of t [...]
20 Oct 2013 SUNDAY’S FILMS
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