Theatre director, born in Trieste, NE Italy. A pioneer and figurehead in post-World War 2 theatre, he became artistic director of Milan's Piccolo Teatro, which he established with Paolo Grassi in 1947, and a leading force in the Theatre de l'Europe (a united European venture). Notable among more than 200 productions are his revisions of plays by Goldoni and Shakespeare, and his dialectical renderings of Brecht.
Famous opera productions
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Arthur Honegger) La Scala, Milan (1946) Lulu (Alban Berg) Venice (1949) La favola del figlio cambiato (Gian Francesco Malipiero), Venice (1952) The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev) (Sergei Prokofiev) Venice (1955) L'histoire du soldat (Igor Stravinsky) Piccola Scala, Milan (1957) Un cappello di paglia di Firenze (Nino Rota) Piccola Scala, Milan (1958) Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Kurt Weill) Piccola Scala, Milan (1964) Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart) (1965) Salzburg Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni) La Scala, Milan (1966) Fidelio (Beethoven) Florence (1969) Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) La Scala, Milan (1971), Vienna State Opera 1984 Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Paris (1973), Milan 1980 The Magic Flute (Mozart) Salzburg (1974) Macbeth (Verdi) La Scala, Milan (1975) Falstaff (Verdi) La Scala, Milan (1980) Don Giovanni (Mozart) La Scala, Milan (1987) Così fan tutte (Mozart), Piccolo Teatro, Milan (1998) (note: Strehler died during the final rehearsals)Famous theatre productions
Richard II (1948) Julius Caesar (1953) Coriolanus (1957) The Game of Powerful (the 1965) Re Lear (1972) The Tempest (Shakespeare) by Shakespeare (1978) Harlequin in all its version, the oldest Italian show and also the most famous, (beginning from 1947) The Trilogy of Holiday (1954) Quarrels Chiozzotte by Goldoni (1964) Il campiello (1975) by Goldoni Platonov by Chekhov (1959) The Garden of Ciliegi by Chekhov (1955 and 1974) The Giants of Mountain (1947, Piccolo Teatro, Milan; 1994 both in Milan and in Vienna at the Burgtheater) by Pirandello As You Want (1988 to present) by Pirandello El nost Milan (1955 and 1979) and Egoist by Bertolazzi (1960) The House of Bernarda Alba by García Lorca (1955) Temporal one of Strindberg, Piccolo Teatro, (1980) The visit of the old Mrs. of Durrenmatt (1960) The Great Magic by Eduardo De Filippo for drammaturgia contemporary (1985) Three Penny Opera by Bertold Brecht (1956) The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertold Brecht (1958, 1981 and 1996) Saint Joan of the Stockyard by Bertold Brecht (1970) Galileo Galilei by Bertold Brecht (1963) Das Spiel der Mächtigen (Shakespeare), Salzburg 1974 Trilogie der Sommerfrische (Trilogia della villegiatura) (Carlo Goldoni), Vienna, Burgtheater, 197410 October 2005 A stretch of road in front of the Politeama Lipsticks in Trieste has been dedicated to Giorgio Strehler.
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