Presentation

The story begins with a meeting in Paris in the years 1980.

Isabel Ribeiro

Rui Frati

It is 1981 Rui Frati, Brazilian actor of Italian origin, after years of political exile in Lisbon, arrives in Paris. Enchanted by the French Socialist government and also by a beautiful Italian, he will never leave the French capital.

That same year, Isabel Ribeiro Portuguese show producer, daughter of a Madeiran and a Chinese Macao where she grew up, it also arrives in Paris from Brazil where she lived for several years.

As many trips, many stories, as many cultures as Rui gave Isabel a talent for versatility and stimulated their imagination, creativity, their thirst for action, inexhaustible enthusiasm. They were made for each other. And they met.

For thirty years, together, they imagine events, developing projects, rise festivals, organize forums, write texts, make the staging, produce concerts, run educational workshops, promote visual artists, musicians and, wanderers, they continue to travel the world presenting their work to the most diverse public and continuing to discover new cultures, new passions, new ideas.

Rui Frati et Isabel Ribeiro, are symbiotic partners. Unless they form a single named head FratiRibeiro.

Dominique Dreyfus