Filipe La Féria

Luís Filipe La Feria de Valente e Orta ( born May 17, 1945 in Aldeia Nova de São Bento ) is a Portuguese theater director and screenwriter.

Life

La Feria comes from a wealthy, traditional landowners family of Alentejo. After first on parts from 1961, he was from 1963 actor of the ensemble of Amélia Rey Colaço at Lisbon Teatro Nacional D. Maria II He was then to the ensemble include the Teatro Experimental de Cascais and the Teatro Cornucopia. A fellow of the Gulbenkian Foundation, he studied production in London. He was to then dedicate for 16 years director of the Casa da Comédia in Lisbon, located from 1990 staging musicals. His first productions were What happened to Madalena Iglésias and Passa por Mim no Rossio (English about: visit ' me time at Rossio ), at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II In particular, the latter production was a great success with the public and increased its notoriety. He wrote continues this for television reinforced pieces and series screenplays.

In 1991 he rebuilt the Politeama, and brought there since its reopening in 1992 a variety productions to the stage. His 2000 there product which he Musical Amália, which was dedicated to the life of the late 1999 singers icon Amália Rodrigues, ran for six years. Even his production of My Fair Lady ( 2002) was a great success, and pieces such as A Casa do Lago ( Eng.: The Lake House ) with Eunice Muñoz and Ruy de Carvalho, the house established on the cultural landscape of the capital.

In 2007 he was also director of the Teatro Rivoli, Porto, where he among other things, Jesus Christ Superstar successfully brought to the stage. His work as a scriptwriter for television series and films, he often produced himself, he brought it on.

Reception

Filipe La Feria is considered an innovator of the broad-based stage productions in Portugal, and also as an innovator, which follows on from the earlier popular Revue Lisbon. He was honored at the award ceremony of the Globo de Ouro in 2001 as a theater personality of the year.

1992 awarded him President Mário Soares the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique in Komtursrang ( Portuguese: Comendador ). In 2006, he received the Portuguese Order of Merit in Großkomtursrang ( Portuguese: Grande- Oficial ) by President Jorge Sampaio.

2010 recorded from the Portuguese section of the International Gay and Lesbian Association ILGA La Feria, for his effective public staging of Poiret's La Cage Aux Folles ( Portuguese: A Gaiola dos Loucos ).