Gabriele Lavia
Gabriele Lavia ( born October 10, 1942 in Milan ) is an Italian film director, playwright and actor. Lavia is one of the most important theater directors in Italy over the last forty years.
Life and work
Lavia studied drama and theater at the L' Accademia Nazionale d' Arte Drammatica in Rome. After graduating in 1963, he worked with several Italian directors such as Giancarlo Sbragia, Luigi Squarzina, Giorgio Strehler and Mario Missiroli.
Lavia has directed several films. His films Scandalosa Gilda, Sensi (both with girlfriend Monica Guerritore in the lead role ) and La lupa are particularly influenced by the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. However, Lavia has also contributed to less demanding productions. So he has with Dario Argento 's movies Rosso - color of death, and with Pupi Avati Suspiria the movie cedar - Because dead return made again.
His debut as a theater actor, he celebrated in 1975 with the play Othello by William Shakespeare. His film Il principe di Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist in 1984 won the Nastro d' Argento Italian film award. His debut as an opera director he gave in 1984 with the piece I pellegrini alla Mecca (Les Pèlerins de la Mecque / The Pilgrim of Mecca ) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Lavia worked as artistic director of the Teatro Eliseo in Rome (1980-1987), for the Teatro Stabile in Turin (1997-2000) and the Cultural Festival of Taormina ( 1993). In the season 2011/2012 for the first time Lavia worked on the " San Francisco Opera ".