Piero Zuffi
Piero Zuffi (28 April 1919 – 2006) was an Italian set designer and painter.
Born in Imola, Zuffi formed as a painter in Latin America.[1] After a few years settled in Paris, in 1952 he moved to Milan, where he started collaborating with the Piccolo Teatro as a set designer.[1] In 1954 he made the sets and costumes for a representation of the Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Alceste, starring Maria Callas, then starting a decade-long collaboration with La Scala.[1] His sets were characterized by fixed structures, lack of curtain and changes in vision.[1] Also active in films, he wrote and directed a crime film in 1970, The Syndicate: A Death in the Family.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Vittoria Crespi Morbio. Piero Zuffi alla Scala. Allemandi-Coletti, 2008. ISBN 9788842215059.
- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.
External links
[edit]- Piero Zuffi at IMDb
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