1988Winner
Best Performance
Il Trovatore
Franca Squarciapino
Actor
Rome, Lazio, Italy
January 1, 1940
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. Source: Article "Franca Squarciapino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1990Nominee
Best Performance
Cyrano de Bergerac
1999Nominee
Best Performance
Volaverunt
Career Highlights
1995Highlight
Best Performance
The Horseman on the Roof
1994Highlight
Best Performance
Colonel Chabert
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Colonel Chabert
Vivaldi, the Red Priest