Franca Squarciapino

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-01-01 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Franca Squarciapino

Biography

Franca Squarciapino (born 1940) is an Italian costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac. She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others. Squarciapino frequently collaborated with Ezio Frigerio (1930-2022), who is also her life partner. Source: Article "Franca Squarciapino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Production

1990

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Costume Design

1995

The Horseman on the Roof

as Costume Design

1991

2023

Don Carlo

as Costume Design

1968

Galileo

as Assistant Costume Designer

1993

Louis, the Child King

as Costume Design

2006

Aida

as Costume Designer

2024

1994

Colonel Chabert

as Costume Design

1988

Il Trovatore

as Costume Design

2009

Vivaldi, the Red Priest

as Costume Design

2001

Otello

as Costume Design

1991

Carmen

as Costume Design

1988

Il Trovatore

as Costume Designer

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