Giorgio Strehler scene companion for more than forty years, the man with more than 500 decorations, a friend of Rudolf Noureev, died at the age of 91, February 2 in Lecco, in his Lombardy native.
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A life spent conceiving and building scenographies, passing from poetic realism to a more abstract phase, then a black period of shadows put into perspective to the creative magic of a theater materialized by the Light: The Italian Decorator and Scenographer of Renogen Ezio Frigerio, Giorgio Strehler Scene Companion (1921-1997), Cinéste Vittorio de Sica (1901-1974), Dancers and Choreographers Roland Petit (1924-2011) and Rudolf Noureev ( 1938-1993), died Wednesday, February 2 at the age of 91 at Lecco Hospital (Lombardy) not far from his residence on the edge of Lake Pusiano, his hometown.
Born in Erba (Province of Como, Lombardy), on July 16, 1930, the 18-year-old young man joined the Polytechnic School of Milan for studying and architectural studies. At the same time it integrates the Nautical Institute of Savona (will remain a lover of the sea). In 1951, he became the student of the abstract painter Mario Radice (1898-1987), at Como. It was in 1954 that he knocked on the door of Piccolo Teatro de Milan, where Giorgio Strehler reigns, which he became the costume. Starting in 1955 a long-term collaboration that will last until the death of the director: twenty-three shows staked up of success, sometimes designed in the pain, with slammed doors and reopened, relation that Either Frigerio will describe in these Terms: “Strehler brought me a lot. At first, he thought I was only a pencil, then he saw that there was an arm, then a head (…). He gave me a new idea of the theater. “
Productions are linked in both theater and opera. The opening of the Scala Piccola in 1966 with the secret marriage, from Cimarosa, remains a historic moment. Follow, between creations and occasions, the Opera de Quat’sous, Brecht (Milan and Paris), the Giants of the Mountain, Pirandello (in 1968) to futuristic references, later presented in New York and Europe, the Circassien King Lear, from Shakespeare, the trilogy of the resort and Arlequin, servant of two masters, from Goldoni (Vienna and Paris), not to mention the house of Bernarda Alba, of Garcia Lorca, or the storm, of Strindberg (in 1978) , which marks an important step.
The Milan Scala is not left out. Ezio Frigerio participates in thirty-two productions of ballets and operas (including eight opening season). Among which: I Capuleti E I Montecchi, Bellini (with Renato Castellani); De Verdi, Hernani (with Luca Ronconi), Rigoletto (with Gilbert Deflo), Simon Boccanegra and Falstaff (with Giorgio Strehler); Fidelio, De Beethoven (with Werner Herzog); Always with Strehler, Lohengrin, Wagner, Don Giovanni, Mozart, and especially the wedding of Figaro, of the same Mozart, one of the angular stones of the second half of the XX e century.
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