Ezio Frigerio

Ezio Frigerio (* July 16, 1930 in Erba (CO), Italy ) is an Italian set designer and costume designer.

Frigerio studied architecture at the Politecnico in Milan, he also visited the Milan Academy of Fine Arts ( Accademia delle belle arti ). He devoted himself to painting, went to sea, was a commercial artist and book illustrator before he arrived as an employee of Mario Chiari for theater equipment. In 1956 he designed the set for Giorgio Strehler's much acclaimed and for decades shown staging of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. From the late 1960s Frigerio was the most important stage of the chasers as the successor to Luciano Damiani. In 1966 he designed the stage for the chaser interpretation of Luigi Pirandello's The Giants of the Mountain, which was followed by numerous further joint work. Internationally Frigerio worked from the early 1970s on, such as the Burgtheater in Vienna or the Paris Odéon.

When Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in Strehler's violent akklamierter Director at La Scala Frigerio worked first time in 1971 in the field of opera. Numerous other opera projects joined, especially at La Scala, but also at the Palais Garnier in Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London or Zurich Opera House.

Except with Strehler Frigerio worked with Klaus Michael Grueber, Gerhard Klingenberg, Rudolf Steinboeck, Piero Faggioni, Luca Ronconi, Nuria Espert, Roger Planchon, Eduardo De Filippo, Liliana Cavani, Werner Herzog ( Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven at La Scala ) or Nicolas Joel.

Frigerio worked repeatedly for the film, such as 1976 for 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean -Paul Rappeneau ( it received the César for the best facilities ) or 1996 for The Fiend by Volker Schlöndorff

Ballet stage designs Frigerio choreographer Rudolf Nureyev for the Roland Petit, Marcia Haydée, Yuri Grigorovich or Heinz Spoerli.

Since the 1970s Frigerio working with Franca Squarciapino who initially supported him as a costume assistant and later with Frigerio both professionally - as a costume designer - as well as private - as his partner - a joint team was formed.

Frigerios style is characterized by the fact that he took many approaches by Luciano Damiani and adapting his own intentions. For example, are also found in Frigerio always the wooden floor of the commedia dell'arte, or brightly lit horizon, but less bright than with Damiani. Frigerio tendency for more massive, precisely designed stage sets, which often form a separate room in the first half of the stage, only to allow sometimes backward views in other landscapes. This was so especially in Simon Boccanegra (where you saw a floating boat in the water in the background, in Boccanegra's death, the sails were raised ), but also in 1978 Vincenzo Bellini's Norma in Vienna (from the temple interior overlooked a starry sky and the moon ) or 1980 Georges Bizet's Carmen in Hamburg ( a plain, only a few elements each modified space behind facades ). Frigerio also refers repeatedly a painted elements that are reminiscent of the Italian tradition of scenery painting ( as in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier in Paris, which he characterized as well as the costume design of a dreamlike atmosphere lent ).

As Frigerio Costume laid emphasis on the color and material qualities of the chosen materials, which were then further edited. The costumes created by him have blended into the color selection always in the stage area as one, they used the realism, however, were always equipped with an air of artificiality, which they identified as a theatrical agent made ​​.

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