Piero Zuffi
Illustration — Piero Zuffi photographed by Paolo Monti. Piero Zuffi (28 April 1919 – 2006) was an Italian set designer and painter. Piero Zuffi was born in Imola, Zuffi formed as a painter in Latin America.
Also recorded as Pietro Zuffi
Piero Zuffi
Paolo Monti · Available in the BEIC digital library and uploaded in partnership with BEIC Foundation. The image comes from the Fondo Paolo Monti, owned by BEIC and located in the Civico Archivio Fotografico of Mi · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1919 · Imola.
- Died
- 2006 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- scenographer · costume designer · painter · screenwriter · production designer · film director
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Piero Zuffi photographed by Paolo Monti. Piero Zuffi (28 April 1919 – 2006) was an Italian set designer and painter. Piero Zuffi was born in Imola, Zuffi formed as a painter in Latin America.
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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. 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. His sets were characterized by fixed structures, lack of curtain and changes in vision. Also active in films, he wrote and directed a crime film in 1970, The Syndicate: A Death in the Family.
Piero Zuffi is recorded as scenographer, costume designer, painter, screenwriter and production designer.
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Piero Zuffi died in 2006 at Rome.
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- 1.Vittoria Crespi Morbio. Piero Zuffi alla Scala. Allemandi-Coletti, 2008. .
- 2.Gremese, 1991. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. 8876059350.
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