Lotfi Mansouri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lotfi Mansouri

Opera director, manager

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 30-Aug-2013

Profession: musician, film director

Nationality: United States, Iran

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri (15 June 1929 – 30 August 2013) was an Iranian-born opera director and manager.
He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is best known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001.
In 1992 he became a Chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the subject of a 1998 biography.He introduced opera surtitles—projected subtitles above the stage that allow the audience to follow the libretto during the performance of an opera.