Behrouz Gharibpour is a renowned Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

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Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre

Persian theatre

Theater background in Persia goes back to antiquity . The first initiation of theater and phenomena of acting in people of the land could be traced in ceremonial theaters to glorify legendary and national heroes and humiliate the enemy like "Soug Sivash" or "Mogh Koshi" , and also dances and...

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He studied theatre at Tehran University and at Dramatic Arts Academy in Rome

Rome

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 (Silvio Damico). He founded Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 and Esfahan puppet theatre centres and changed the Tehran’s slaughterhouse into the greatest Iran’s Cultural Centre. He has experienced in writing and directorship in fields such as theatre, puppet theatre, cinema, documentary movies, and T.V.

Gharibpour is known for his solid research works on the Iranian puppetry as was commonly practiced during Qajar era. He was the president of the UNIMA

UNIMA

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Notable works

• The script of Davandeh (Runner)
• "Les Misérables" of Victor Hugo
• Rostam and Sohrab puppet opera
  Rostam and Sohrab (opera)
  Rostam and Sohrab is an opera by Loris Tjeknavorian. It is based on Shahnameh. Its composition took 25 years. In 1963, Professor Carl Orff granted Loris Tjeknavorian a scholarship, which allowed him to reside in Salzburg and to complete his opera in Austria....
  
  

ASHURA marionette opera.As the first celestial opera and marionette opera in Islamic World.
Rumi based on phillosophical story of great mistic poet of Islamic world.

Awards

• The Hans Christian Andersen Award (2002)

He got Sierna d,Oro (Arrivano dal mare 2008)

Founder of first Iranianian permanent theatre for children and youg adult(1979)
Founder of Bahman Cultural center(ex slaughter house)
Founder of Iranian Artists Forum(ex Army center)
Reviver of Iranian Opera and founder of Iranian marionette opera(2003):Rostam &Sohrab,Macbeth,Ashura,Rumi(Molawi)