Ezio Frigerio
Ezio Frigerio | |
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Born | |
Died | 2 February 2022 Lecco, Italy | (aged 91)
Occupation(s) | Costume designer, art director |
Ezio Frigerio (16 July 1930 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian costume designer and art director.
Career
After finishing
several times.The collaboration with Strehler made Frigerio enter the world of opera:
Frigerio also created stage designs for the Burgtheater in Vienna: Trilogie der Sommerfrische (Trilogia della villeggiatura) by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Strehler, 1974; Judith by Hebbel, directed by Gerhard Klingenberg, 1975.
Other operatic stage designs include:
Frigerio also created the sets for Liliana Cavani's movie Galileo e i Cannibali and Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac, which got an Oscar nomination in 1991.[1]
He designed the grave of Rudolf Nureyev.[2] Frigerio often collaborated with Italian costume designer Franca Squarciapino who was also his life partner.
Death
Frigerio died on 2 February 2022, at the age of 91.[3]
References
- ^ "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Rudolf Nureyev's Grave in France". The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ "La Scala Mourns Famed Art Director, 91". Slipped Disc. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
Notes
- Henderson, Marina (1992), 'Frigerio, Ezio' in The ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Ezio Frigerio at IMDb
- Zurich Opera biography (German), accessed 25 January 2010