It is one of the biggest names in theater Portugal, one of the great references for several generations of actors. Luís Miguel Cintra, founder of the Theater of Cornucopia, with Jorge Silva Melo, announced the end of his career in what has been the scene of his life. It was at the end of Hamlet , after a long applause. Health problems prevent him from continuing.
“It was a super exciting time,” says the PUBLIC actor Nuno Lopes, who on Saturday attended the last show of Hamlet > on Cornucópia Theatre in Lisbon. Although the piece, which lasts for four hours, return to the Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite to the Almada Festival October 23 to November 15, this Saturday will be the last time that Luis Miguel Cintra stepped on the stage of Cornucopia. At least as an actor.
After 66 years, the actor and director has therefore decided to put an end to his long career due to health problems, how advanced the journal online Observer this Sunday. In August, in an interview with Daily News , Luís Miguel Cintra revealed suffer from Parkinson’s disease which also affected his father, the philologist and linguist Louis Lindley Cintra.
“Obviously I understand the reasons why he leaves the stage, I think is good is the right attitude but at the same time is very sad for all of us, “said Nuno Lopes, as long as Luís Miguel Cintra asked to speak on the show order, since after the applause, and then read a text two pages. “It’s my favorite actor. It’s a shame that young actors can not be referenced as I had, “he continues, knowing that as Cintra” there is no other. ” “It’s a unique player and when you lose something unique is very sad,” laments Lopes, with whom he played opposite – and it was directed -. In the play The City , from Aristophanes’ text
Nuno Lopes also highlights the “intelligence” that plays any role and, referring to the cornucopia, which Luís Miguel Cintra helped found in 1973 and it is today one of the most important companies in the Portuguese theater, says “. I hope you can overcome the financial difficulties facing so you never miss the wit, intelligence and how Luís Miguel Cintra looks at the world This has to continue to happen.”
In September before the premiere of his almost full version of Hamlet , text by William Shakespeare in Sophia translation Mello Breyner, Cintra confessed Publico that “this is, in a sense, a farewell to shows like this “. And” like this “referred to the long-term performances,” Do not accuse the public or anyone of anything but the truth is that it is becoming very difficult to do shows with a duration than that which is provided for in functioning of society. “
theater man, Luis Miguel Cintra is also a big name in Brazilian cinema. Was one of the oldest and most faithful collaborators of Manoel de Oliveira, since it came into Le Soulier de Satin in 1985. In his curriculum sum even movie João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, João Botelho, Jorge Silva Melo, Christine Laurent, John Malkovitch or Pedro Costa.
In 1998 he was decorated by the Portuguese State with Sant’Iago Military Order of the Sword and in 2004 received the Grand Officer of Arts and Letters in France. . A year later, in 2005, became the first name of the performing arts to receive the Pessoa Prize
Well by the way, Cintra will be honored at Lisbon & amp; Estoril Film Festival, which takes place 6-15 November with a vast cycle, which will cross films in which he participated as an actor with shot of his work in the theater records.
PUBLIC tried, unsuccessfully, contact Luís Miguel Cintra and Cornucópia Theatre.
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