Lila De Nobili
Lila De Nobili (September 3, 1916 – February 19, 2002) was an Italian
Personal
Lila De Nobili was born in Castagnola (Lugano). Her father was the Marquis Prospero de Nobili from an aristocratic Ligurian and Tuscan family and her mother, Dola Berta Vertès, was from a
In the 1930s, she studied with the artist Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. One of her own pupils was the costume designer and director, Christine Edzard, with whom she had a lifelong friendship and collaboration.[citation needed]
She settled in Paris in 1943, and this would be her home for most of her life on the rue de Verneuil and on the Quai Voltaire, where she lived until her death in 2002, aged 85. Franco Zeffirelli said: "She was the greatest scene and costume designer of the 20th century, the teacher of us all. Every time I design an opera I think of her."[2] Her portrait by David Hockney in oil pastel in 1973 is sometimes mis-titled as 'Lila Nobilis'.[3]
Illustration
In Paris from 1943, De Nobili began doing illustrations of the
Opera and Ballet Design in France and Italy
She created costumes for Rouleau's works including Angel Pavement (1947), Le voleur d'enfants (1948), A Streetcar Named Desire (1949), La Petite Lili (1951), Anna Karenine (1951), Gigi (1951), Cyrano de Bergerac (1953), The Country Girl (1954), The Crucible (1954), La Plume de Ma Tante (1958), L'Arlésienne (1958), Carmen (1959) and The Aspern Papers (1961).
For the French premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, adapted by Jean Cocteau and starring Arletty as Blanche DuBois, Lila de Nobili designed a hot and sleazy New Orleans.[5]
She went on to work with composers and directors such as
De Nobili's opera, ballet and film designs in the late 1950s and early '60s include
Theatre, Opera and Ballet Design in Britain
In the late 1950s she began working at
Film
De Nobili designed the costumes, in collaboration with
References
- ^ "Marcel Vertes, Painter 66, Won 2 Oscars". New York Times. 1 November 1961.
- ^ "Friends of La Scala celebrates Lila de Nobili". Gramilano. Dec 2014.
- ^ "Books: Lila De Nobili, Theatre, Dance, Cinema". Vittoria Crespi Mobio.
- ^ Simone, Andrea (4 December 2014). "Lila de Nobili Legendary painter". Spettacolarmente.
- ^ "Notice Bibliographique, Un Tramway Nommé Desir".
- ^ "Designing Violetta - Lila de Nobili 1955". Opera North Blog.
- ^ "Lila de Nobili". Oxford Reference.
- ^ "Lila de Nobili". The Telegraph. 5 March 2002.
- ^ "Obituary: Lila de Nobili". The Guardian.
- ^ "Midsummer Night's Dream, A". British Universities Film and Video Council.
- ^ "Lila de Nobili". Theatricalia.
- ^ "De Nobili, Lila, Laurence Olivier Costume as Tattle". V&A Theatre Costume.
- ^ "Ballets, Ondine". FrederickAshton.org.
- ^ "De Nobili, Lila". Cine Resources, Cinematheque Francaise.
- ISBN 9781624075650.
- ^ "The Crucible (1957)". IMDb.
- ISBN 9780826413949.
- ISBN 9788873014980.
- ^ "Amours Celebres". cinema encyclopedie, Films, BIFI FR.
- ^ "Lila de Nobili, BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on August 12, 2019.
External links
- 1959 : La création de Carmen au Palais Garnier dans les décors et costumes de Lila de Nobili Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine The web site of the book which is going to be published
- Lila De Nobili at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lila De Nobili at IMDb
- Video in Italian by Vittoria Crespi Morbio talk on Lila De Nobili at La Scala
- Book on Lila De Nobili by Yannis Tsarouchis, Benaki Museum, Greece
- Review of La Scala book by Roberto Tirapelle, February 2015