Lotfi mansouri biography for kids
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Lotfi MANSOURI (1929-2013) at Tehran Roudaki Hall Opera House in Iran
A Remembrance by Liliana Osses Adams
(Basedin parton the memoir: An Operatic Journey by Lotfi Mansouri and co-authoredby Donald Arthur, 2010.)
Lotfi Mansouri, an eminent Iranian-born artist, singer and actor, stage producer, manager and general director, and 2009 Opera Honoree of the National Endowment for the Arts, who dedicated his life to opera as “the greatest art form created by human mind,” died at his Pacific Heights home in San Francisco on Friday, August 30, 2013, at the age of 84. The cause of his demise was pancreatic cancer.
The Mansouri family, his wife Marjorie Anne and their daughter Shireen, requested donations in lieu of flowers to the San Francisco Merola Opera Program Adler Fellows, where the future of opera was created in Lotfi Mansouri’s master classes, or to the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, headed by Lotfi Mansouri for twelve years (1976-1988).
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Bio
He led, brilliantly, two of the most important opera companies in North America, and has directed productions throughout the world. But with one small act, with just one word, Lotfi Mansouri forever changed how audiences experienced the art form: supertitles. He left Teheran, Iran, where he was born in 1929, to study medicine in Los Angeles, but music won out. From 1960 to 1966, he was resident stage director of the Zürich Opera. For the next decade, he served as head stage director at the Geneva Opera, while also directing productions in Europe and the United States. In 1976, Mansouri became general director of the Canadian Opera Company. He introduced Canadian audiences to many works, including Luluand Death in Venice, and in 1983, revolutionized opera bygd ushering in supertitles at a performance of Elektra. He moved on to the San Francisco Opera in 1988, where he was general director until 2001. Under Mansouri's leadership, the SFO established the Pacific Visions p•
Lotfi Mansouri
An Iranian-born opera director and manager
Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri (15 June 1929 – 30 August 2013) was an Iranian-born opera director and manager. His directing career began in around 1960. He is best known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera, which he ran from 1988 through 2001.[1] In 1992 he became a Chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[2] His autobiography was published in 2010.
Mansouri introduced opera surtitles—titles projected onto a screen above the stage that allow the audience to follow the libretto during the performance of an opera.[3]
Biography
[edit]Mansouri was born in Tehran, Iran, the son of Hassan and Mehri (Jalili) Mansouri. He married Marjorie Anne Thompson on September 18, 1954; he has a daughter, Shireen Melinda.[3]
Mansouri studied psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (A.B., 1953) and was assi