Born in Buenos Aires in 1964, Lopérfido is currently General and Artistic Director of Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires and since 2011 has been Artistic Director of the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (FIBA), held biennially. In addition to serving as programmer of Odisea Producciones and President of OLA (Opera Latinoeamérica). He was a member of the international jury of the Divine Comedy Theater Festival, held in Cracovia in 2012. He was the first international guest of the Be My Guest program of the 2013 Theatertreffen in Berlin and the first foreigner invited to evaluate such prestigious event before the jury and local media. He was Consultant of PRISA group in Madrid from 2002 to 2008, Secretary of Culture and Communication of Argentina (with the rank of Minister) from 1999 to 2001, Secretary of Culture of the Buenos Aires City Government from 1997 to 1999, Artistic Director of FIBA in 1997 and 1999, and Sub-Secretary of Cultural Action of the Buenos Aires City Government in 1996. He was also the director of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas from 1992 to 1999 (an institution under the authority of UBA, University of Buenos Aires), and the secretary of cultural affairs of UBA. He also worked as a cultural journalist from 1985 to 1989 for the magazine Teatro and for the radio stations FM Rock&Pop and la Red. Jointly with Alejandro Félix Capato he wrote Derechos Culturales en el Mercosur (Cultural Rights in the Mercosur), published by Ediciones del Candil, and Legislación Cultural en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires(Cultural Legislation in the City of Buenos Aires).
05 October 2015
The 10th Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, a great event for the performing arts of the 21st century, came to an end with the stunning performance of Macbeth at Teatro Col&oa...04 October 2015
Today at Teatro Colón, South African company Third World Bunfight will perform an original version of Verdi’s opera, set in Africa. And the great news is that there ar...