Spanish costume designer (1950–2020)
Not to be confused with the Spanish basketball player
María Araújo .
María Araujo (1950 in La Aldea de San Nicolás – 25 March 2020, in Barcelona [ 1] ) was a Spanish costume designer who worked in theater, cinema and television.
Career
Araujo worked with directors such as Mario Gas , Josep Maria Flotats , Carles Alfaro and José María Pou .[ 2] At the Teatro de la Zarzuela she worked in the production of María Moliner and La Villana .[ 3]
In cinema, she worked, among others, in the films Serenata a la luz de la luna, Mater amatísima, La cripta, La revuelta de los pájaros, Tic Tac , El pianista , Valentín, Iris and the TV3 miniseries Arnau .[ 4] Most of her costumes, a total of 1,133, are kept in the Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques .[ 5]
Awards
She received a Max Award for Amadeus (1999) and another for El lindo don Diego (2014). In 2018 she received her third Max award for Richard III .[ 6] [ 7] She was awarded four times by the critics of Barcelona, in 1984 for Cal dir-ho? , in 1999 for Amadeus and Dones sàvies and in 2016 for Amor & Shakespeare. In 2008, 2010 and 2014 she also won the Premio ADE de Figurismo for Tio Vania, El arte de la comedia and El lindo don Diego , respectively, and in 2009 she won the Gran Vía Prize for Musical Theater for her designs for Sweeney Todd . [ 8]
In 2017 she was awarded the "Can de Plata" by her native town, La Aldea de San Nicolás .[ 2]
Death
Araujo died in March 2020, aged 69, from COVID-19 , during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain .[ 9]
References
^ Mor la figurinista i modista de cinema, televisió i teatre María Araujo , 26 March 2020
^ a b María Araujo recibe el Can de Plata , 17 March 2017
^ "De la Z a la A... Zarzuela" , Radio SOL XXI , 30 March 2020, archived from the original on 8 August 2020, retrieved 14 May 2020 Minute 10.
^ "Maria Araujo" , Max , retrieved 23 March 2020
^ Escena Digital - María Araujo
^ Daniel Abreu logra tres Max y María Araujo el tercero de su carrera , 19 June 2018, retrieved 18 January 2019
^ "Los canarios María Araujo y Daniel Abreu arrasan en los Premios Max" . Retrieved 18 January 2019 .
^ La grancanaria María Araujo firma el vestuario de El amor brujo, previsto en el Cuyás para junio , 17 February 2018
^ "Muere por coronavirus la figurinista María Araujo, ganadora de 3 premios Max" , EL PAÍS , 26 March 2020, retrieved 29 March 2020
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