1. Giorgio Strehler co-founded Italy's first and most significant repertory company, the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, and the Union of the Theatres of Europe.
20 Facts About Giorgio Strehler
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Giorgio Strehler switched parties to the Independent Left, for which he was a Senator from 1987 to 1992, representing Lombardy.
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Giorgio Strehler's father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died when Giorgio was only three.
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Giorgio Strehler found it "false" and decided it did not have the power to stir one's emotions as film did.
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Giorgio Strehler's opinions changed one hot summer night while on his way to the cinema.
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Giorgio Strehler noticed a sign advertising the air-conditioning posted by the Odeon Theater.
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Giorgio Strehler walked in for some relief from the weather to see a performance of Carlo Goldoni's Una delle ultime sere di Carnevale being given by a company from Venice.
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Giorgio Strehler went every evening for the next few days to see more plays by Goldoni.
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Giorgio Strehler created the role of theater director in Italy all by himself.
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Giorgio Strehler gave prominence to Italian authors, though few in number.
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Giorgio Strehler suggested that she start singing "Canzoni della Mala" such as Ma Mi.
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Giorgio Strehler had enrolled in the law school at the University of Milan planning to become a criminal lawyer.
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Giorgio Strehler said "a profession as I imagined it was very close to the theater".
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Giorgio Strehler influenced three generations of actors and inspired many around the world.
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Giorgio Strehler was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982.
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Giorgio Strehler's ashes were deposited in the cemetery of Trieste.
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In 1990, Giorgio Strehler was awarded the III Europe Theatre Prize, in Taormina, with the following motivation:.
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The work of Giorgio Strehler, to whom the 1990 Europe Theatre Prize has been unanimously awarded by the Jury, is a cornerstone in the construction of post-war European Theatre.
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Giorgio Strehler has worked not only as a director, but as manager, guiding light, actor, writer, translator, teacher, and advocate of an all-embracing "theatrical idea" rooted in the fabric of society and politics, which has had an impact throughout European theatrical culture.
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Today Giorgio Strehler's activities have expanded to even greater dimensions in the context of the transformation which our continent has undergone, and which theatre has done so much to promote.