Franca Squarciapino
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
- Costume & Make-Up
- Born
- 1940-01-01 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) — Costume Design
- The Horseman on the Roof (1995) — Costume Design
- Colonel Chabert (1994) — Costume Design
- Galileo (1968) — Assistant Costume Designer
- Volaverunt (1999) — Costume Design
- Louis, the Child King (1993) — Costume Design
- Mademoiselle de Maupin (1966) — First Maestro
- Vivaldi, the Red Priest (2009) — Costume Design
- Il Trovatore (1988) — Costume Design
- Stars 90 (1990) — Self
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine (2024) — Costume Design
- Otello (2001) — Costume Design
- Carmen by Georges Bizet (1991) — Costume Design
- The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine (2009) — Costume Designer
- Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams (2016)
- Quelli che il cinema (2025) — Self