The renowned theater director and actor trainer Agustín Alezzo passed away this Thursday at 84 years because of coronavirus, as reported by the agency Télam.

Alezzo had been in the Trinidad clinic in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo since the beginning of June. He was first admitted due to a urinary infection, but after being subjected to the Covid-19 test, it yielded a positive result.

The director undoubtedly belongs to a universe of national theater talents such as Norman Briski, Raúl Serrano or the also unforgettable Inda Ledesma, Lorenzo Quintero, Augusto Fernandes and Carlos Gandolfo.

Born in 1935, He trained with Hedy Crilla and from a young age he arrived at the New Theater that Alejandra Boero and Pedro Asquini were running.

Then came his participation in the groups Juan Cristóbal and La Máscara during the decade of 1960 and a future formation with Lee Strasberg in New York. Along with this master, figures such as Marlon Brando were formed, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro and James Dean, among others.

Regarding his acting career, participated in works by Wilfredo Jiménez, Luigi Pirandello, Georg Buechner, Bertolt Brecht, Ricardo Halac and Rosso de San Secondo and in the mid 60 moved to Lima, Peru, where he worked under the baton of Reynaldo D’Amore, Alonso Alegría, Phillip Toledano and Héctor Sandro; back in Buenos Aires he continued acting in works directed by Gandolfo and Fernandes until 1972.

But nevertheless, his public consecration came from the direction: he was in charge of a first job with “La mentira”, by Nathalie Sarraute, in 1968, and since then he knew how to play from shows like "The Witches of Salem", with Alfredo Alcón, or "Romance of wolves", by Ramón del Valle Inclán, even one-man shows as intense as when he directed Alicia Bruzzo in "I love Shirley", Julio Chavez in "I am my own woman" or Beatriz Spelzini in "Rose".

Other of his memorable posts are "Jettatore ...!”, by Gregorio de Laferrère, with a wide cast -and that these days is being offered online on the network of the National Theater Cervantes-, "The tattooed rose", de Tennessee Williams, “Master Class”, de Terence McNally, with Norma Aleandro, "Mrs. Warren's Profession", by Georges Bernard Shaw and "What was not", de Noel Coward.