---
name: "Ezio Frigerio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ezio-frigerio"
fi1m_id: "ezio-frigerio"
imdb_id: "nm0295702"
tmdb_id: 34855
wikidata_id: "Q328177"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "16 July 1930"
died: "2 February 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T00:04:41.192234+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ezio Frigerio

## Identity

Ezio Frigerio

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ezio-frigerio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ezio-frigerio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0295702
- **TMDB ID:** 34855
- **Wikidata ID:** Q328177
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezio_Frigerio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295702/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34855

Production designer. Born 16 July 1930 in Erba, Lombardia, Italy. Died 2 February 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 16 July 1930, Erba, Lombardia, Italy
- **Died:** 2 February 2022
- **Active:** 1976–1990
- **Also known as:** Elvezio Frigerio
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 70 (1), 1990s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezio_Frigerio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295702/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34855

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Cyrano de Bergerac*](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ezio Frigerio (also credited as Elvezio Frigerio) was an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer. Born on 16 July 1930 in Erba, Lombardy, he studied architecture before beginning his career designing costumes for plays directed by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan during the 1955–56 season. He died on 2 February 2022 in Lecco, Lombardy.

Frigerio worked extensively in film. He served as production designer on *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction. His other film credits include art direction on *1900* (1976) and production design on *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963), *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995) and *The Ogre* (1996).

He maintained a long collaboration with Strehler on theatre and opera productions, and frequently worked with costume designer Franca Squarciapino, his wife. Frigerio also designed for opera houses including La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, and for ballet productions with Rudolf Nureyev.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, operawire.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Fi1m 88, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *1900* (1976), Fi1m 70, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty* (2025), Set Designer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine* (2024), Set Designer
- *Le Lac des Cygnes [Opéra National de Paris]* (2019), Stage Director
- *Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams* (2016), Actor
- *English National Ballet's Romeo and Juliet* (2015), as Art Direction
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini* (2013), Set Designer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine* (2009), Set Designer
- *Verdi: La forza del destino* (2007), Set Designer
- *Aida* (2006), Art Designer
- *Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake* (2005), Set Designer
- *Otello* (2001), Production Design
- *The Ogre* (1996), Production Design
- *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995), Production Design
- *Rigoletto* (1994), Scenic Artist
- *Louis, the Child King* (1993), Production Design
- *The House of Bernarda Alba* (1991), Production Design
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Production Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *Il Barbiere di Siviglia* (1988), Production Design
- *Il Trovatore* (1988), Production Design, Set Designer
- *Georges Bizet: Carmen* (1980), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1980), Art Designer, Costume Design
- *Verdi: Simon Boccanegra* (1978), Production Design
- *1900* (1976), as Art Direction — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)
- *The Life of Leonardo da Vinci* (1971), series, Costume Designer, Production Designer
- *The Fifth Day of Peace* (1970), as Set Decoration
- *The Brothers Karamazov* (1969), series, Costume Design
- *The Year of the Cannibals* (1969), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Galileo* (1968), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Make Love, Not War* (1966), Production Design, Set Decoration
- *Francis of Assisi* (1966), Costume Design
- *Mademoiselle de Maupin* (1966), Production Design
- *Three Nights of Love* (1964), Production Design
- *Mastro Don Gesualdo* (1964), series, Production Design
- *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963), Production Design
- *The Boom* (1963), Production Design
- *The Condemned of Altona* (1962), Production Design
- *The Best of Enemies* (1961), Costume Design

## Gallery

- ![Ezio Frigerio](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-5e9bdc091ec4.jpg) Ezio Frigerio — Terentiyeva, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/2007-%D0%AD%D1%86%D1%86%D0%BE_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE_%28Ezio_Frigerio%29-%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%28Franca_Squarciapino%29_-_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_-_Tikhonov_Nikita-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![2007-Эццо Фриджерио (Ezio Frigerio)-Франка Скуарчапино (Franca Squarciapino) - Тихонов Никита Сергеевич - Tikhonov Nikita-Милан-Ла Скала](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-9f815d36e646.jpg) 2007-Эццо Фриджерио (Ezio Frigerio)-Франка Скуарчапино (Franca Squarciapino) - Тихонов Никита Сергеевич - Tikhonov Nikita-Милан-Ла Скала — Terentiyeva, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/2007-%D0%AD%D1%86%D1%86%D0%BE_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE_%28Ezio_Frigerio%29-%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%28Franca_Squarciapino%29_-_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_-_Tikhonov_Nikita-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![frigerio (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-712d626e05e3.png) frigerio (2016) — Paulamartinm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Frigerio1.png/1280px-Frigerio1.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![frigerio (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-f598709e4572.png) frigerio (2016) — Paulamartinm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Frigerio2.png/1280px-Frigerio2.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![frigerio (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-99937b855b5c.png) frigerio (2016) — Paulamartinm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Frigerio3.png/1280px-Frigerio3.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![frigerio (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/77909/gallery-5104e2cd4d0e.png) frigerio (2016) — Paulamartinm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Frigerio4.png/1280px-Frigerio4.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1991: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts 2018: Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (won)
- European Film Award for Best Production Designer 1990: European Film Award for Best Production Designer (won), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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