Franca Squarciapino

Franca Squarciapino (* in Rome) is an Italian costume designer and Oscar winner.

Squarciapino studied law (according to other sources: Literature) as well as dance and drama in Rome. As an actress, she worked for the Italian television. In 1974 she met the set designer Ezio Frigerio know whose artistic and private partner she eventually became.

Theater

For numerous productions of Giorgio Strehler, especially at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, which were fitted by Frigerio, she worked as a costume designer.

Squarciapino debuted in 1974 at the Vienna Academy theater with the costumes for Gerhard Klingenberg's production of Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol (stage: Rouben Ter Arutunian ). In the same year she was at the Burgtheater in Strehler's production of Carlo Goldoni's trilogy of summer (stage: Frigerio ) involved, which was developed in 1978 in a French version in Paris.

Opera, ballet, musicals

An extended activities resulted for Squarciapino in the field of opera. In 1977, she first worked at the Vienna State Opera for a new production of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (director Piero Faggioni, stage Frigerio, conductor Riccardo Muti. Followed in 1980, the Milan Scala in Strehler's production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro ( Stage Frigerio, conductor Muti ). lot more work on the Scala followed. in the field of opera Squarciapino was also at the Paris Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opera House Zurich, the Opera House in Lyon or the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse active.

In addition to these directors Squarciapino also worked for Luca Ronconi, Nuria Espert, Robert Wilson, Liliana Cavani, Lluis Pasqual or Nicolas Joel.

In the field of ballet Squarciapino worked repeatedly for the choreographer Roland Petit, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Yuri Grigorovich or Heinz Spoerli.

On Broadway in New York in 1981, she was the costume designer for a new production of the musical Can- Can by Cole Porter, what a Tony nomination received.

Film

In the late 1980s Squarciapino also began working for the film and was awarded several prizes in the sequence. In 1990, she designed the costumes for Cyrano de Bergerac ( Directed by Jean -Paul Rappeneau ), for which she was awarded the following year with an Oscar for best costume. In addition, she was rewarded for this work with a César, a BAFTA Award, the price of the Italian Film Journalists Association and the European Film Awards. 1994, 1995 and 1996 she was nominated for a César Award: for Louis, enfant roi by Roger Planchon, Le Colonel Chabert by Yves Angelo and The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard sur le toit, directed Rappeneau ). In Spain, she won a Goya for the costumes in La femme de chambre du Titanic (directed by Bigas Luna ).

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