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Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri (15 June 1929 – 30 August 2013) was an Iranian-born opera director and manager. He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is best known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001. In 1992 he became a ''Chevalier'' of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the subject of a 1998 biography.〔"Lotfi Mansouri." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition. Nicolas Slonimsky, Editor Emeritus. Schirmer, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: K2420007556. Fee. Retrieved 27 December 2008.〕 He introduced opera surtitles—projected subtitles above the stage that allow the audience to follow the libretto during the performance of an opera.〔 == Biography == He was born in Tehran, Iran, the son of Hassan and Mehri (Jalili) Mansouri. He married Marjorie Anne Thompson, Sept. 18, 1954; he has a daughter Shireen Melinda.〔"Lotfollah Mansouri." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: K2013018226. Fee. Retrieved 27 December 2008.〕 Mansouri studied psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (A.B., 1953) and was assistant professor there (1957–60).〔 He began his directorial career with a production of ''Cosi fan tutte'' at Los Angeles City College, and several musical theater productions at Marymount College. From 1960 to 1966, he worked as a resident stage director at the Zurich Opera. In his first year there, he staged new productions of ''Amahl and the Night Visitors'', ''La traviata'', ''Don Pasquale'', and ''Samson et Dalila''. From 1966 through 1976 he worked as the head stage director at the Geneva Opera. Throughout this period, he occasionally worked at numerous U.S. opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera and many smaller companies. Among his productions available on DVD, are ''La fille du régiment'' (with Beverly Sills, 1974) and ''L'africaine'' (with Shirley Verrett and Plácido Domingo, 1988). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lotfi Mansouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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