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.^[1] 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 was also her life partner.

References

1. "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. 4 October 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2019.

External links

• Franca Squarciapino at IMDb