Mario Lanfranchi
Mario Lanfranchi (30 June 1927 – 3 January 2022) was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.
Mario Lanfranchi
Foto Farabola · Radiocorriere magazine, issue n. 15, year 1956 · Public domain
- Name
- Mario Lanfranchi
- Born
- 30 June 1927
- Birthplace
- Parma, Italy
- Died
- 3 January 2022
- Place of death
- Langhirano, Italy
- Spouse
- Anna Moffo (1957–1974 div.)
- Occupation
- Film and theatre director, screenwriter and television producer
- Known for
- La traviata (1968) Death Sentence (1968)
- Nationality
- Italy.
- Fields
- opera directing, directing, television direction and film direction.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mario Lanfranchi • Born — 30 June 1927 • Birthplace — Parma, Italy • Died — 3 January 2022 • Place of death — Langhirano, Italy • Spouse — Anna Moffo (1957–1974 div.) • Occupation — Film and theatre director, screenwriter and television producer • Years Active — 1952–2021 • Known for — La traviata (1968) Death Sentence (1968)
Documentary record
Mario Lanfranchi (30 June 1927 – 3 January 2022) is described as a director, screenwriter, art collector and film director in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Mario Lanfranchi was born on 30 June 1927 and died on 3 January 2022 in Langhirano, Italy.
Career
Career
Lanfranchi was born in Parma. After receiving a degree at the Drama Academy (Accademia dei Filodrammatici) of Milan in the early 1950s, he was hired by Sergio Pugliese at RAI, at the onset of Italian television. He was the first to bring opera to the small screen, in 1956, with Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini, which introduced to a wide public Anna Moffo, at that time an unknown American soprano, who became his wife for 17 years. In 1967 he began his career as a film director with the western movie Death Sentence. He lived in a 16th-century villa in Santa Maria del Piano outside Parma (Villa Lanfranchi). Lanfranchi died in Langhirano, near Parma, on 3 January 2022, at the age of 94.
Other interests
Other interests
• Illustration — Mario Lanfranchi with one of his greyhounds El Tara in 2003 Lanfranchi was a well-known owner of greyhounds, owning the prefix 'El'. He owned several significant greyhounds including the UK open race win record holder El Tenor.
Identity
Identity
Mario Lanfranchi is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as actor, screenwriter, film producer, television producer and director.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1927
Mario Lanfranchi born at Parma.
2022
Mario Lanfranchi died at Langhirano.
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Parma.
Birth place
Langhirano.
Death place
Opera TV productions and films
• 1956 – Madama Butterfly – Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni, Miti Truccato Pace, Afro Poli • 1956 – La fanciulla del West – Gigliola Frazzoni, Ken Neate, Mario Petri • 1956 – La sonnambula – Anna Moffo, Danilo Vega, Plinio Clabassi • 1958 – Turandot – Lucille Udovich, Franco Corelli, Renata Mattioli, Plinio Clabassi • 1959 – Lucia di Lammermoor – Anna Moffo, Nicola Filacuridi, Dino Dondi, Ferruccio Mazzoli • 1960 – Tosca – Magda Olivero, Alvinio Misciano, Giulio Fioravanti • 1962 – La serva padrona – Anna Moffo, Paolo Montarsolo • 1968 – La traviata – Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi (film) • 1971 – Lucia di Lammermoor – Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington (film)
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For the birthplace of Mario Lanfranchi, Parme (Italie) is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Parma by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q544738: Mario Lanfranchi
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- “Mario Lanfranchi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Al regista M. Lanfranchi vengono spesso attribuite interpretazioni anche come attore cinematografico, trattasi però di un caso di omonimia, corretto poi anche su Imdb. L'unica sua apparizione sul grande schermo è un cameo (Il dottore) nel suo film Genova a mano armata (1976), per evitare alla produzione i danni derivanti dall'improvvisa indisposizione dell'interprete prescelto. Smentita e asserzione del regista a questo proposito sulla lunga intervista di R. Venturelli in Cinema & Generi 2010, Le Mani, 2010, riportata nella bibliografia.
- 2.Gazzetta di Parma, 14 ottobre 1958, 4 - Mario Del Monaco. La mia vita e i miei successi. Milano: Rusconi, 1982, pp. 57 e segg.
- 3.A. Grasso, 1998, vol. 2, p. 220
- 4.Si ricordi che, in quegli anni, il tasso di analfabetismo era ancora alto, tanto che dal 1960 al 1968 andò in onda con frequenza quotidiana la trasmissione "Non è mai troppo tardi", un progetto originale Rai, per insegnare a leggere e scrivere a quanti avevano superato l'età scolare.
- 5.Archivio Radiocorriere Anno 1964, n. 3 e segg.
- 6.Per approfondire: vedi M. Giusti, 1996, 2004, facendo riferimento alle case di produzione.
- 7.R. Venturelli, 2010.
- 8.intervista a Gian Vittorio Baldi.
- 9.Cita web http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,36/articleid,1438_02_1981_0347_0036_20574183/
- 10.Cita web http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,19/articleid,1057_01_1981_0300_0021_15205918/anews,true/
- 11.Set in Venice, Mondadori Electa, 2009, pp. 76–77
- 12.M. Genesi, 2002, p. 340
- 13.Rif. Teche Rai per il teatro
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