- Ezio Frigerio
Ezio Frigerio (b.
Erba ,Milan , 1930) is an Italiancostume designer andart director .After finishing
architecture studies, he approachedtheatre art by realising thecostume s for "Casa di Bambola" and "L'opera da 3 soldi", two plays directed byGiorgio Strehler at Piccolo Teatro in the 1955-56 theatre season. From then on a fertile artistic marriage started betweenart director and producer, setting up several unique productions as "I giganti della montagna" (1966), "Santa Giovanna dei macelli" (1970), "Re Lear" (1972), "Il temporale" (1980), "L'Illusion Comique ", whichpremiere d in 1984 at Théatre de l'Odéon inParis , "La grande magia", which premiered in 1985 and wasreprise d several times.The collaboration with Strehler made Frigerio enter the world of opera: Mozart's "
Le Nozze di Figaro ", "Don Giovanni " and "Così fan tutte " were realized by Strehler and Frigerio between 1973 and 1996. "Così fan tutte" was being staged just before Strehler died.Frigerio also created stage designs for the
Burgtheater inVienna : "Trilogie der Sommerfrische" ("Trilogia della villeggiatura") by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Strehler, 1974; "Judith" by Hebbel, directed byGerhard Klingenberg , 1975.Other operatic stage designs include:
Cherubini 's "Medea ", directed byLiliana Cavani , for theOpéra National de Paris ;Strauss ' "Elektra", directed byNuria Espert , for De Munt Theatre inBrussels ; Verdi's "Ernani", directed byLuca Ronconi , 1980, Beethoven's "Fidelio ", directed byWerner Herzog in 1999 for theTeatro alla Scala inMilan ; Bellini's "Norma", directed byPiero Faggioni , for theVienna State Opera in 1977.Frigerio also created the sets for
Liliana Cavani 's movie "Galileo e i Cannibali" andJean-Paul Rappeneau 's "Cyrano de Bergerac", which got an Oscar nomination in 1991.Frigerio often collaborates with Italian costume designer
Franca Squarciapino who is also Frigerio's partner in life.
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