Filipe Zau, in a note of condolence sent to Lusa, states that Rogério de Carvalho, who died on Saturday night in Portugal, was a man of great persistence and rigor and who always prioritized modernity in the course of his work.
The minister recalled that he was awarded the National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2021 in Angola, in the theater category, highlighting that he was also referenced as bold, with full maturity and responsibility in his day-to-day work.
The Minister of Culture also bows to the memory of Rogério de Carvalho, “a great man and director”, expressing his deepest condolences to the grieving family and friends.
The director Rogério de Carvalho, aged 88, died on Saturday night at the Garcia de Orta Hospital in Almada, where he was hospitalized, following a stroke, a source from the Almada Theater Company told Lusa.
Rogério de Carvalho devoted much of his 60-year career in theatre to texts by playwrights such as Jean Genet, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Howard Barker, Eugene O'Neill and Anton Chekhov, not to mention classics such as Molière and Gil Vicente, as well as the origins of drama, from Plato to Euripides.
Born in Gabela, Angola, Rogério de Carvalho began his career while still a student at the National Conservatory of Lisbon, now the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, where he taught until 2007.
