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Italian scenographer (1919–2006)
Piero Zuffi photographed by, Paolo Monti.

Piero Zuffi (28 April 1919 – 2006) was an Italian set designer. And painter.

Born in Imola, Zuffi formed as a painter in Latin America. 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 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.

References

  1. ^ Vittoria Crespi Morbio. Piero Zuffi alla Scala. Allemandi-Coletti, "2008." ISBN 9788842215059.
  2. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.

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