José Tamayo (theater manager)

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José Tamayo Rivas (born August 16, 1920 in Granada , † March 26, 2003 in Madrid ) was a Spanish theater director and director.

Tamayo began a humanities training at the Seminario de San Cecilio in his hometown and studied at the Escuela de Comercio . After the end of the Spanish Civil War he appeared in amateur theater groups and took over the direction of the theater group Teatro al Aire Libre at the university , with which he performed works of Spanish classics such as Miguel de Cervantes , Lope de Rueda and Gil Vicente .

In 1946 he founded his first own theater group called Lope de Vega , with which he performed La vida es sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca . In the same year he made his debut at the Teatro Eslava with the pieces Romeo and Juliet , Maria Stuart , La muerte de un viajante , Seis personajes en busca de autor and Réquiem por la muerte de una mujer . Eventually he went to Madrid at the Teatro Fuencarral .

After a stay in America, he returned in 1952 to the Teatro de la Comedia in Madrid with La muerte de un viajante . With Amadeo Vives he brought his first Zarzuela performance on the stage of the Teatro de la Zarzuela in 1954 . In the same year he took over the management of the Teatro Español , which he held until 1962. He also worked for other houses in Madrid, Washington and New York and festivals in Spain, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Paris.

Tamayo had international success with La cena del rey Baltasar by Calderón and the Antología de la Zarzuela (1984), which he presented at the Festival Internacional de Santander and which then ran in Madison Square Garden in New York and in 1987 in a revised form under the title Nueva Antología in Beijing, New York and Copenhagen. As Antología de la Zarzuela 92 or La Antología de la Zarzuela , the work was finally played worldwide, including in Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, London, Hong Kong and Athens. His late work includes Los Miserables (after Victor Hugo , 1985), Un tranvía llamado deseo (1993), Calígula (1994), Doña Francisquita (1995) and Luces de Bohemia (1996).

In 1985 the Teatro Lírico Nacional de La Zarzuela honored him for his services to the house. In 1992, King Juan Carlos I awarded Tamayo the Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes . He received the Primera Estrella from the city of Madrid . In 1997 he was awarded the Los Majores de Año Prize and in 2002 the Premio de Honor de las Artes Escénicas .

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SURNAME Tamayo, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tamayo Rivas, José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Granada
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2003
Place of death Madrid