Rojales City Council regrets the loss of their Favorite Son.
Alicante academic, theater director and television producer Alberto González Vergel died last Thursday at the age of 97 in Gijón, according to the Spanish Academy of Sciences and Arts for Television. The former director of the Spanish Theater directed more than fifty plays and more than 500 dramatic pieces for TVE in venues such as Front row, Novel or Study 1, among others, during the golden years of television theater in our country.
Born in Rojales on December 10, 1922, Alberto González Vergel received throughout his career numerous recognitions such as the National Theater Award, the National Television Award, the Golden Antenna, the Ondas Award, the Tie of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
Last June, he received the honorary plaque of Honorary Member of the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain at his home. In 2009 the Valencian Generalitat awarded him the Cultural Merit Distinction for being one of the most recognized figures in Spanish theatrical history.
The Rojales City Council yesterday mourned the death of his Favorite Son and conveyed his condolences to his son and granddaughters. The mayor, the socialist Antonio Pérez, considered “a great loss” the death of this “illustrious Rojalero who knew how to carry the name of Rojales throughout the national geography”, whom they named Favorite Son and dedicated a street next to the Capitol theater of the location.
From the Department of Culture of Rojales they highlighted the close relationship of González Vergel with the town that saw him born, where he directed the staging of the famous Legend of the Encanta, novelized by his countryman the writer and Nadal Prize Salvador García Aguilar. «With his experience and ability, he was able to put more than 100 actors on stage amateurs and achieve brilliant success, “said the Councilor for Culture, Immaculate Chazarra.
Student of Chemical Sciences, he dedicated himself to the theater direction in Alicante and later in Murcia, as director of the Spanish University Theater (TEU). He moved to Madrid in 1949 and his works stand out in theater with texts by Samuel Beckett, Terence Rattigan, Shakespeare or Arthur Miller, and by classic and contemporary Spanish authors, such as Lope de Vega, Calderón, Buero Vallejo, Quevedo, Unamuno or Pérez Galdós . In his television role he has worked for the programs Front row, Novel and Study 1, in addition to the series Through the mist and Widows, among other.
He was artistic director of the Spanish Theater between 1970 and 1975 and the International Festival of Classic Theater of Almagro Theater paid tribute to him in 2005 for his relationship with the event, since it premiered The Star of Seville, by Lope de Vega, in the first edition of the festival in 1978.
He taught at the Resad, at the Official School of RTVE, at the Royal Higher School of Dramatic Art and at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University.
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