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Beppe Menegatti
Menegatti in 2010
Born(1929-09-06)6 September 1929
Florence, Italy
Died17 September 2024(2024-09-17) (aged 95)
Rome, Italy
Occupationtheatre director
Spouse
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(m. 1964; died 2021)​
Children1 son

Giuseppe "Beppe" Menegatti (6 September 1929 – 17 September 2024) was an Italian theatre director.

Life and career

Giuseppe Manegatti[1] was born in Florence on 6 September 1929. He attended performances of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young boy; he remembered that he received a ticket for Verdi's Rigoletto for his thenth birthday, in a performance with the young Giulietta Simionato as Maddalena.[2] He developed a passion for opera.[1] The Silvio D'Amico National Academy in Rome awarded him a scholarship. In the mid-1950s he was called by Luchino Visconti as assistant director. He collaborated during his career with Eduardo De Filippo and Vittorio De Sica.[1][3]

He directed operas, ballets and plays by important authors, including, in 1964, the Italian premiere of Samuel Beckett's Play and that of Isaac Babel's Maria.[3][2] He directed almost all shows of his wife, ballerina Carla Fracci.[1][4] He authored productions that combined dance, spoken language and song.[1]

Personal life

Menegatti married Carla Fracci in 1964; they had a son, Francesco, born in 1969.[5][6] She died on 27 May 2021.[4]

Menegatti died in Rome on 17 September 2024, at the age of 95.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Morto Beppe Menegatti, regista e marito di Carla Fracci: aveva 95 anni". Adnkronos (in Italian). 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors' Edition". gramilano.com (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Beppe Menegatti". sipario.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b Balmer, Crispian (27 May 2021). "Italy's leading prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, dies at 84". Reuter. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. ^ Bandettini, Anna (27 May 2021). "L'addio a Carla Fracci, il marito Beppe Menegatti: "Mi hanno chiamato da tutto il mondo, una cascata di amore per lei"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  6. ^ Brug, Manuel (28 May 2021). "Zum Tod der Primaballerina Carla Fracci". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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