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Franca Squarciapino

Known For
Costume & Make-Up

Known Credits
4

Gender
Female

Birthday
January 1, 1940 (86 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.

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Known For

Costume & Make-Up

2025Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty...Costume Design
2024Swan Lake Filmed for IMAX...Costume Design
2024The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine...Costume Design
2023Don Carlo...Costume Design
2013The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini...Costume Designer
2009Vivaldi, the Red Priest...Costume Design
2009The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine...Costume Designer
2007Verdi: La forza del destino...Costume Design
2006Aida...Costume Designer
2005Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake...Costume Designer
2001Otello...Costume Design
1999Volaverunt...Costume Design
1995The Horseman on the Roof...Costume Design
1994Colonel Chabert...Costume Design
1993Louis, the Child King...Costume Design
1991The House of Bernarda Alba...Costume Design
1991Carmen by Georges Bizet...Costume Design
1990Cyrano de Bergerac...Costume Design
1988Il Trovatore...Costume Design
1988Il Trovatore...Costume Designer
1968Galileo...Assistant Costume Designer

Acting

2025Quelli che il cinemaas Self
2016Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreamsas
1990Stars 90as Self
1966Mademoiselle de Maupinas First Maestro