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Altres imatges i espectacles
Els tres de La Fanfarra al pont de
"Malic a Babilònia"
A Dues Mans
Claudia
Schneider i Polichinela en "Euridice i els Titelles de
Caronte".
Saló d'Anubis
A Mans Plenes
TONI RUMBAU Català Castellano
- Born
in 1949, Barcelona .
B.A. degree in
Spanish Literature and Language, University of Barcelona .
- In 1972 travelled in Italy , Turkey , Iran and Afghanistan . He moved to Denmark in 1972 and lived in Portugal from 1974 to 1975.
- In 1976 he founded the puppet company La Fanfarra together with Mariona Masgrau and Eugenio Navarro. Writer for the majority of the Fanfarra's productions until 1992.
- Created the character Malic, an Iberian Adventurer, protagonist of most of the company's shows until 1992.
- With his solo show “Two Hands”, and other productions by La Fanfarra , Toni Rumbau has toured the world, performing in most of E urope, in Scandinavia , Morocco , Egypt , Lebanon , Turkey , Pakistan , India , China , Russia , Brazil and Argentina .
- In1984, with La Fanfarra , he opened the Malic Theatre in Barcelona , Spain 's first fringe theatre. The theatre received the Critics' Special Prize (1991), The Barcelona City Prize for Theatre (1992) and the FAD Prize (1993).
- In 1993 Toni Rumbau established the Festival of Pocket Opera, Barcelona , of which he is the director (and which had its tenth edition in 2005).
- In 1999, he premièred his solo show “Double and Shadow”, in the Barcelona summer Arts Festival (Grec'99).
- In 2001, première of the opera “Euridice and the Puppets of Charon”, for which he wrote the libretto, with music by Joan Albert Amargós (Festival Grec 2001).
- In October 2002 he published his first novel, “ La Catedral de las Ruinas”, edited by Arola Editores.
- In November 2002 he created the network: Mediterranean Puppets and Shadow Puppets. In December 2002 he closed the Malic Theatre, after its eighteen year existence.
- In autumn 2003 he was an invited resident Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, (Study Centre for the Arts and Humanities, Liguria , Italy ), where he wrote the opera libretto “Doble Sombra”, a project with the Italian composer Federico Ermirio.
- He is currently the director, with Dietrich Grosse, of the Festival of New and Pocket Opera, Barcelona .
- In October 2005 he presented his book “Pipe Smoking or the Cauldron of Dreams”, with photographs by Albert Fortuny, published by Arola Editores.
- 2005 also saw the première of the Cantata “The Conference of the Children” with text by Toni Rumbau and music by Joan Albert Amargós, a commission by the Auditorium of Barcelona.
- In april 2007, he presented his book "Malic, l'Aventura dels Titelles", autobiografical book about his experience as a puppeter. Published by Arola Editors.
- In 2007, première of the opera “Salón de Anubis”, for which he wrote the libretto, with music by Joan Albert Amargós (Wintertur, Dramstadt and Barcelona, in the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya).
- In march 2008, he presented his book"La Colla de la platja i el Futur de Catalunya", published by Arola Editorial.
- In april 2009, he presented his new puppet and shadow show "Full Hands".
- In 2010, he start with his project "Routes of
Polichinela. Puppets and Cities of Europe". The bookllibro
se publica en catalán, castellano y portugués en el año 2012
y 2013.
- El 2012, abre lo tres portales digitales dedicados al mundo de la marioneta: Puppetring (in English), Titeresante (en español) i Putxinel·li (en català). Putxinel·li y Titeresante se han convertido en portyales temáticos de referencia.
- En el año 2015 organiza como comisario la exposició, 'Figuras del Desdoblamiento' en el Arts Santa Mònica de Barcelona (ver aquí). La exposició, cuenta con un catálogo trilingüe que se puede comprar aquí. Hace nacer igualmente el Festival IF Barcelona, que desde este año se realiza en ediciones bienales en Barcelona. El Festival cuenta en estos momentos con un equipo propio de gestión.
- En el año 2018 publica On Line la novela 'El Titiritero, el Huevo, Barcelona y la Extravagancia'
