Florian Pittiș
Florian Pittiş (Romanian: [floriˈan ˈpitiʃ]; 1943–2007) was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.
He attended the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest and in 1968 he graduated from the Institute of Theatre. As a young actor he was hired at one of the best theatres in Bucharest, the Bulandra Theatre[1], where he worked with directors such as Andrei Şerban, Liviu Ciulei, Alexandru Tocilescu.[1] In the early '70s he studied in Paris with the well-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau.
In 1992, he was one of the founding members of the band Pasărea Colibri.
In 1998 he became the director of Radio Romania Tineret, known as Radio3Net since 2001, the only Romanian radio station that broadcasts exclusively on the Internet.
Great admirer of Bob Dylan, he had masterfully translated and adapted some of Dylan's songs: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Death is Not the End, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Mr. Tambourine Man, Rainy Day Women#12 & 35, She Belongs to Me, Silvio.
Florian Pittiș had a very active life and he was loved both by his own generation and by the youth. Emblematic for his image was his long hair, his informal wear, and his habit of smoking "Carpaţi", a brand of filterless cigarettes.[2][3][4][5] He was equally appreciated for his very particular voice,[6] as a singer, on stage, and as a voice-over in television programs. He was called many superlative and admirative names such as "the prophet of the blue-jeans generation" and "the most beautiful voice in the Romanian theater".[7]
In the Benelux he is remembered by many a 80's youth for his role as the Parrot in the 1979 (almost cult) youth movie "Ma-ma", which aired on Dutch Television in 1980. The movie was called "Rock and Roll Wolf" on Dutch Television. It was a Russian, Romanian and French cooproduction, featuring many great artists (such as Oleg Popov) and completely English spoken and sung.
On July 30, 2007, Pittiş was admitted in serious condition at the Oncology Institute in Bucharest where he died a week later.
Stage Activity
- Lucius – Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, director Andrei Serban, 1968
- Fleance – Macbeth by William Shakespeare, director Liviu Ciulei, 1968
- Aurel – The End of the World by Victor Eftimiu, director Zoe Anghel-Stanca, 1968
- Camille – A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, director Emil Mandric, 1969
- Collin Talbo – The Grass Harp by Truman Capote, director Crin Teodorescu, 1970
- Jeremy – Love for Love by William Congreve, director Emil Mandric, 1970
- Arlechino – The Liar by Carlo Goldoni, director Sanda Manu, 1971
- Valentin – Valentin and Valentina by Aleksei Nicolaevici Arbuzov, director Adrian Georgescu, 1972
- Feste – Twelfth Night, Or What You Will by William Shakespeare; director Liviu Culei, 1973
- Count d’Aubigny – Elisabeth I by Paul Foster, director Liviu Ciulei, 1974
- Alioska – The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, director Liviu Ciulei, 1975
- Traian – Titanic Waltz by Tudor Musatescu, director Toma Caragiu, 1975
- Edmund – Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, director Liviu Ciulei, 1976
- Parrot – Ma-ma, director Elisabeta Bostan, 1976
- King Radu The Handsome – The Cold by Marin Sorescu, director Dan Micu, 1977
- Piotr – The Philistines by Maxim Gorky, director Ioan Taub, 1978
- Ariel – The Tempest by William Shakepeare, director Liviu Ciulei, 1978
- Leonard Brazil – City Sugar by Stephen Poliakoff, director Florian Pittis, 1980
- Patriciu – Investigation on a Young Man by Adrian Dohotaru, director Petre Popescu, 1980
- King Louis XIV – The Cabal of the Hypocrites by Mihail Bulgakov, director Alexandru Tocilescu, 1982
- M. Loyal - Tartuffe by Molière, director Alexandru Tocilescu, 1982
- Laertes - Hamlet by William Shakespeare, director Alexandru Tocilescu, 1985
- Teodoro – The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega, director Florian Pittis, 1988
- Philinte – The Misantrophe by Molière, director Valeriu Moisescu, 1989
- Dr. Frank Bryant - Educating Rita by Willy Russell, director Florian Pittis, 1989
- Mortimer Brewster - Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, director Grigore Gonta, 1991
- Sonnenstich - Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, director Liviu Ciulei, 1991
- Tiresias - Antigone by Sophocles, director Alexandru Tocilescu, 1993
- Jack - Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee, director Tudor Marascu, 1997
As a director
Music
See also
References
- ^ BBC News website, Romania mourns folk hero Pittis, 7 August 2007
- ^ Geambaşu, Cristian (August 2007), Moştenirea lui Pittiş, Gazeta Sportului, http://agenda.liternet.ro/articol/5378/Cristian-Geambasu/Mostenirea-lui-Pittis.html, retrieved 2008-09-08 "Pittis fuma la greu la Carpati-fara..." ("Pittis was smoking heavily Carpati without filter...");
- ^ Roseti, Roxana; Silvana Chiujdea (2007-01-09), Radio3net este şi va fi un radio cu MOŢ, Jurnalul National, http://www.jurnalul.ro/articole/101213/radio3net-este-si-va-fi-un-radio-cu-mot, retrieved 2008-09-08 "Florian Pittiş - Profetul generaţiei in blue-jeans ca element distinctiv se găseşte fumul de Carpaţi." ("Florian Pittis-the prophet of the blue jeans generation, having as a distinctive element the smoke of Carpati [cigarettes]")
- ^ Pittis inseamna plete, blugi, tigari Carpati si rock, 2006-08-13, http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/407430/quotPittis-inseamna-plete-blugi-tigari-Carpati-si-rockquot/, retrieved 2008-09-08 "Pittis inseamna plete, blugi, tigari Carpati si rock" ("Pittis means long hair, blue jeans, Carpati cigarettes, and rock")
- ^ Pagina de suflete, 2005-04-22, http://www.jurnalul.ro/index.php?section=rubrici&article_id=46347, retrieved 2008-09-08 );"Te miri cand il vezi pe Pittis fumand Carpati fara filtru, fumator patimas, nu se fandoseste cu tigara, chiar o stoarce de fiecare molecula de nicotina." ("You have to wonder when you look at Pittis smoking filterless Carpati, a passionate/ardent smoker, he does not put on airs with his cigarette, rather he squeezes it of its each and every molecule of nicotine.")
- ^ (Romanian) "Florian Pittiş: O voce de neuitat, un spirit liber, un idol cu plete", ProTV, August 6, 2008
- ^ (Romanian) Gabriela Lupu, Andreea Lupu, "A murit Florian Pittiş. Era tînăr, doamnă", Cotidianul, August 6, 2007
External links
| Persondata |
| Name |
Pittis, Florian |
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| Date of birth |
1943-10-04 |
| Place of birth |
Bucureşti, Romania |
| Date of death |
2007-08-05 |
| Place of death |
Bucureşti, Romania |