Portuguese Tiago Rodrigues appointed future director of the Festival d'Avignon
The future president of the Avignon festival, Tiago Rodrigues.
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Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues was appointed on Monday as the future director of the Festival d'Avignon, becoming the first foreigner to lead the prestigious theatrical event.
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Tiago Rodrigues will therefore replace
Olivier Py
as director of the Festival d'Avignon. Internationally known as a director, he will take office in September 2022 and his first edition of the legendary festival will be presented in July 2023, announced in Avignon the French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot.
Aged 44, he has been director since 2014 of the Dona Maria II National Theater in Lisbon, the
Portuguese
equivalent
of the Comédie Française in France. "
It is the most beautiful theater festival in the world, it is an adventure to which I promise you that I will devote all my energies, trying to contribute to this great celebration of artistic freedom and cultural democratization
", declared Tiago Rodrigues during a press briefing at the Palais des Papes, a major venue for the city and the festival.
Son of a communist journalist and a socialist doctor mother, he was born on February 16, 1977. The first foreigner to run the festival, he nevertheless speaks very good French and is familiar with the festival, of which he will take the reins.
He participated with
Shakespeare's
Antoine et Cléopâtre
in 2015 or with
Sopro
in 2017.
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