Franca Squarciapino
- Costume & make-up
- January 1, 1940 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Quelli che il cinema · Self
- Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty · Costume Design
- Swan Lake Filmed for IMAX · Costume Design
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine · Costume Design
- Don Carlo · Costume Design
- Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams
- The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini · Costume Designer
- Vivaldi, the Red Priest · Costume Design
- The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine · Costume Designer
- Verdi: La forza del destino · Costume Design
- Aida · Costume Designer
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake · Costume Designer
- Otello · Costume Design
- Volaverunt · Costume Design
- The Horseman on the Roof · Costume Design
- Colonel Chabert · Costume Design
- Louis, the Child King · Costume Design
- The House of Bernarda Alba · Costume Design
- Carmen by Georges Bizet · Costume Design
- Stars 90 · Self
- Cyrano de Bergerac · Costume Design
- Il Trovatore · Costume Design, Costume Designer
- Galileo · Assistant Costume Designer
- Mademoiselle de Maupin · First Maestro