Ezio Frigerio
Nacimiento : 1930-07-16, Erba, Lombardia, Italy
Muerte : 2022-02-02
Historia
Ezio Frigerio (16 July 1930 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian costume designer and art director.
After finishing architecture studies, he approached theatre art by realising the costumes for Casa di Bambola and L'opera da 3 soldi, two plays directed by Giorgio Strehler at Piccolo Teatro in the 1955-56 theatre season. From then on a fertile artistic marriage started between art 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, which premiered in 1984 at Théatre de l'Odéon in Paris, La grande magia, which premiered in 1985 and was reprised 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 in Vienna: Trilogie der Sommerfrische (Trilogia della villeggiatura) by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Strehler, 1974; Judith by Hebbel, directed by Gerhard Klingenberg, 1975.
Other operatic stage designs include: Cherubini's Medea, directed by Liliana Cavani, for the Opéra National de Paris; Strauss' Elektra, directed by Nuria Espert, for De Munt Theatre in Brussels; Verdi's Ernani, directed by Luca Ronconi, 1980, Beethoven's Fidelio, directed by Werner Herzog in 1999 for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Bellini's Norma, directed by Piero Faggioni, for the Vienna State Opera in 1977; Verdi's Rigoletto, for the Polish National Opera in 1997. The team of Frigerio and Squarciapiano also designed the Met Opera's gorgeous and sensational Zandonai FRANCESCA DA RIMINI in 1984 (Scotto, Domingo, MacNeil, Levine).
Frigerio also created the sets for Liliana Cavani's movie Galileo e i Cannibali and Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac, which got an Oscar nomination in 1991.
He designed the grave of Rudolf Nureyev. Frigerio often collaborated with Italian costume designer Franca Squarciapino who was also his life partner.
Frigerio died on 2 February 2022, at the age of 91.
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Art Direction
Shakespeare's heartbreaking tale, Nureyev's blazing ballet.
Sumptuous costumes and sets transport you to Renaissance Verona, its piazza bustling with market traders, street entertainers and the restless factions of the Capulet and Montague families.
Amidst the grandeur of the Capulet’s ball, our star-crossed lovers – Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernández – meet, unleashing a fateful sequence of events, from the romantic bedroom scene to their tragic final embrace.
Set Designer
Eva-Maria Westbroek stars in the title role of Zandonai’s sensuous drama, opposite Marcello Giordani as Paolo. Piero Faggioni’s lush production provides the perfect setting for one of the all-time great tales of tragic passion, adapted from an episode in Dante’s Inferno. Mark Delavan co-stars as Giovanni, the husband and brother of the star-crossed lovers, whose jealousy leads him to kill them both. Robert Brubaker is Malatestino and Marco Armiliato conducts.
Set Designer
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a kept woman who defies convention to chase a dream of romantic love with an earnest, if naïve, young man. This Met Opera production features the dynamic soprano Angela Gheorghiu and Frenchborn tenor Roberto Alagna performing the roles of Magda and Ruggero, it blooms into its rightful place in the glorious Puccini canon. La Rondine (The Swallow) was commissioned by Vienna s Carltheater in 1913. Due to the impending outbreak of World War I, premiered in 1917, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Gilda Dalla Rizza and Tito Schipa. Set in a Parisian salon, it is the story of Magda, the glamorous mistress of wealthy banker Rambaldo. Her yearning for romantic love compels her into the arms of the ardent and adoring young Ruggero.
Set Designer
“La forza del destino”, estrenada en San Petersburgo en 1862, es una de las composiciones operísticas más importantes de Verdi. Su trama es complicada y combina una secuencia de trazos del destino desafortunados entrelazados. Donna Leonora es el centro de los acontecimientos, junto con su hermano Don Carlo di Vargas y su amante Don Alvaro. La historia se ambienta originalmente en la España del siglo XVIII, sin embargo el director francés Nicolas Joël sitúa la acción en un periodo un poco posterior, en la época del Imperio, a principios del siglo XIX. La función de 2007 en el hermoso teatro Maggio Musicale de Florencia, dirigida por Zubin Mehta, quien es un artista invitado frecuente allí, está protagonizada por Violeta Urmana como Donna Leonora con Carlo Guelfi y Marcello Giordani como Don Carlo y Don Alvaro.
Art Designer
The Zurich Opera presents a stunning new production of Verdi’s most popular, most spectacular work. Responding superbly to the role, Swedish soprano Nina Stemme – she of the richly clear voice – offers an Aida vibrant with love and emotion. Heading a magnificent cast, she makes a poignant couple with talented tenor Salvatore Licitra as Radamès. Luciana d’Intino is nothing less than brilliant in the role of Aida’s rival Amneris and Juan Pons imbues his Amonasro with enormous humanity. Conducting the Zurich Opera orchestra and chorus, Adam Fischer brings out all the score’s musical and dramatic majesty.
Production Design
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanced age, he is still in excellent form, both vocally and in terms of stage presence. Nucci is also his usual self, delivering a performance of very high standard. Barbara Frittoli is an excellent Desdemona, in good voice and gives a very moving performance. Muti conducts with great emotion and tight accuracy, conveying the full orchestral drama of the score.
Production Design
El francés Abel Tiffauges es un hombre ingenuo que vive una vida sencilla trabajando como mecánico. Acusado falsamente de ser un pederasta, es reclutado como soldado al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; pero pronto es capturado y llevado al corazón de la Alemania nazi.
Art Direction
En 1832, el cólera devasta la Provenza francesa. Al mismo tiempo, los italianos intentan librarse del control de Austria. En medio de esta situación, el coronel Angelo Pardi, un joven oficial italiano, encuentra a Pauline de Theus, una bella mujer que busca a su marido.
Scenic Artist
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851. This 1994 recording, directed by Riccardo Muti, stars Roberto Alagna, Renato Bruson and Andrea Rost.
Production Design
History buffs will glory in the riches of Louis, Enfant Roi, others will perhaps find this complex story of intrigues and betrayals in the court of the young king tough sledding. When Louis the Fourteenth (1638-1715) was born, the power of government was shared between the monarchy, the church, the nobility, and the Parlement. His predecessor had greatly centralized the powers of government following the advice of Cardinal Richelieu. Louis XIV (often called "The Sun King" for the brilliance of his rule) followed the advice of Richelieu's successor, Cardinal Mazarin (Paolo Graziosi), and brought the powers of government under the sole sway of the monarch. He expanded the territory and influence of France in a series of wars throughout his reign. How he came to be so autocratic and ruthless both personally and politically is the subject of this biographical drama.
Production Design
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Production Design
Cyrano es un brillante poeta y un hábil espadachín que expresa su amor por la bella Roxane a través de Christian, el apuesto soldado a quien ella ama. Cyrano es jactancioso y fanfarrón, de genio vivo pero a la vez ingenioso e irónico, noble y orgulloso. Pero esconde una herida secreta que le atormenta: su agudo sentido del ridículo, su fealdad y su susceptibilidad le han impedido ser amado por Roxane. Sin embargo, ya que su amada ama a otro, él ayudará a su rival escribiendo en su nombre apasionadas cartas de amor.
Production Design
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1988. What sets this IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA apart from all others available is its elegant realism. None of its visuals are the least bit cartoonish or blatantly designed for comedy. Dr. Bartolo’s house is a stark, stern-looking structure of plastered brick with a comfortable yet plain, white-curtained interior, while the costumes are highly realistic 18th century garb in subdued colors. Yet despite its fairly austere appearance the production is delightful, thanks to its performers and staging. The stage business is lively, witty and free of excessive slapstick, and every singer brings his or her character to life, all offering rich, vibrant characterizations that strike a perfect balance between comedy and humanity.
Set Designer
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in an impossible situation by forces beyond his control. The sensational Dolora Zajick, only days after her Met debut, gives an incandescent performance as the demented gypsy Azucena, thirsting for revenge against Count Di Luna (Sherrill Milnes). Eva Marton is the passionate Leonora, desired by both Manrico and the Count, and James Levine brilliantly leads the Met’s orchestra and chorus in some of Verdi’s best-known music.
Production Design
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in an impossible situation by forces beyond his control. The sensational Dolora Zajick, only days after her Met debut, gives an incandescent performance as the demented gypsy Azucena, thirsting for revenge against Count Di Luna (Sherrill Milnes). Eva Marton is the passionate Leonora, desired by both Manrico and the Count, and James Levine brilliantly leads the Met’s orchestra and chorus in some of Verdi’s best-known music.
Costume Design
Representación de la ópera Carmen de George Bizet en el Teatro Nacional de la Ópera de París.
Production Design
Representación de la ópera Carmen de George Bizet en el Teatro Nacional de la Ópera de París.
Production Design
Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.
Art Direction
En el año 1901, en una finca en el norte de italia, nacen el mismo día el hijo de un terrateniente y el hijo de un bracero. La película narra la vida de ambos y sus respectivas familias durante ochenta años. La amistad de los protagonistas se verá nublada por sus diferentes actitudes frente al fascismo. Famoso drama que hace un complejo recorrido político y social por la Italia del siglo XX.
Costume Design
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
Production Design
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
Costume Design
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Production Design
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Set Decoration
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un comandante trastornado al mando de un submarino continúa navegando a la espera de otra guerra. Entre la tripulación se encuentra una hermosa joven rescatada de un naufragio veinte años atrás.
Production Design
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un comandante trastornado al mando de un submarino continúa navegando a la espera de otra guerra. Entre la tripulación se encuentra una hermosa joven rescatada de un naufragio veinte años atrás.
Production Design
Al estallar la guerra, Magdalena, una joven húngara, se disfraza de monje para escapar de su país. Un oficial del ejército obliga a Teodoro "el monje" a alistarse en el ejercito del rey, donde es nombrado edecán de Alcibiades, un hombre tan viril en la batalla como confundido por la presencia de su nuevo ayudante. Pero D'Albert, un poeta, sospecha cuál es la verdadera naturaleza de Teodoro...
Production Design
Primer episodio: una viuda lleva flores a la tumba de su esposo y observa que el enterrador siempre está cavando una nueva fosa. Segundo: un fraile intenta convencer a una mujer que ha sufrido un accidente de que recobre la fe. Tercero: un hombre está obsesionado por la diferencia de edad entre su mujer y él.
Production Design
Comedia de corte ligeramente erótico sobre tres mujeres muy diferentes y los hombres que se sienten atraídos por ellas. Dividida en tres episodios, todos ellos protagonizados por una pareja estelar: Sophia Loren y Marcello Mastroianni. En el primero, una napolitana que vende cigarrillos de contrabando está permanentemente embarazada, pues mientras lo esté podrá evitar ir la cárcel. En el segundo episodio, Loren encarna a la esposa de un millonario. Y en el tercero, vive un intenso romance.
Production Design
Giovanni Alberti es un respetable hombre de negocios que está muy enamorado de su esposa. El problema es que ella ama tanto el lujo y la buena vida que Giovanni necesita cada vez más dinero para satisfacer sus caprichos. Llega a estar tan asfixiado por las deudas que incluso le proponen que venda algo vital a cambio de una importante cantidad de dinero.
Production Design
Tras ser denunciado por su padre a la Gestapo, Franz von Gerlach se alista en el ejército y se convierte en un torturador. A continuación, se encierra durante quince años en una habitación y vive aislado del mundo, sin más compañía que la de su hermana, para enfrentarse a un tribunal imaginario ante el que asume la responsabilidad de sus crímenes, de los de la Alemania nazi y de todos los del siglo XIX.
Costume Design
Un oficial británico es capturado por una patrulla italiana durante la campaña de Abisinia. Posteriormente es liberado con una condición: que persuada a los británicos para que no ataquen a los italianos, sino que los dejen llegar tranquilamente a su base.
