Beni Montresor

Beni Montresor ( Montresor really Benito; born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo; † 11 October 2001 in Verona ) was an Italian stage designer, director and illustrator.

Life

Montresor studied at the School of Fine Arts of Verona and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Thanks to a scholarship, he could also visit the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he among other things, worked with Fellini.

In 1960 he went to New York and started from there an international career that made working in of outstanding opera houses as a stage; so at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he worked with The Last Savage by Gian Carlo Menotti debptierte 1964, the Royal Opera House in London, the Opéra National de Paris.

The London Times called him "a magician of the stage," Le Monde " vivionären a poet ," the New York Times " one of the few true romantics ". Here, Montresor was not limited to the theater: he was also valued as an illustrator of children's books in which he could make his magical fantasy Nild. Among his related works about thirty May I Bring a Friend stands out, for which he was honored in 1965 with the " Caldecott Medal ".

Having already worked 1953-1959 intensively as a costume and set designers for the Italian film industry, Montresor end of 1960erJahre intense this art form turned to again and directed two films in its screenplay in the United States or in France.

In the second half of his career, he returned to Italy, and distinguished himself as an opera director at La Scala in Milan, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the Italian capital. Outstanding were in his time in Verona, the productions of Cinderella ( Prokofiev ) in 1978 and of 1985 Giselle For the Teatro Filarmonico he directed and was responsible for costumes and stage set of The Magic Flute in 1991.; in Estate Teatrale he brought The Bourgeois Gentleman on stage and for the Arena di Verona was a Madama Butterfly ( 1997) and The Merry Widow (1999). For his later productions and images Montresor had to take criticism; it was designated as artificial or television according to.

Filmography (selection)

Direction

Set

Bibliography

• Gaetano Miglioranzi: Dal colore alla luce. Beni Montresor, un teatro del protagonista internazionale Corazzano Titivillus Edizioni, 2004.