Gerardo Vera Perales (10 March 194720 September 2020) was a Spanish costume and set designer, opera director, actor, and film and theatre director.

Life

Vera was born in Miraflores de la Sierra on 10 March 1947. He studied English language and literature in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and theatre in the

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. He was the director of the Centro Dramático Nacional (national theatre of Spain) from June 2004 to December 2011. He directed these films: * ''La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez'' (1990) * ''Una mujer bajo la lluvia'' (1992) * '' La Celestina'' (1994) * '' Second Skin'' (2000) * '' Deseo'' (2003) His staging of the play ''Divinas Palabras'', by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, was performed at the

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Festival 2007, in New York. He won a Goya Award for Costume Design in 1986 for the film '' El amor brujo'', by

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, and a Goya Award for Best Art Direction for ''

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'', directed by

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. In 1988, he was awarded the Spanish National Theater Prize.Premio Nacional de Teatro / Premiados
Official website of the Spanish ministry of Culture, Artes Escénicas y Música. Access 10 January 2012. Vera died from

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on 20 September 2020, at the age of 73 during the

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References

External links

Gerardo Vera in El País

Centro Dramático Nacional
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