Beppe Menegatti
Beppe Menegatti | |
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Born | Florence, Italy | 6 September 1929
Died | 17 September 2024 Rome , Italy | (aged 95)
Occupation | theatre director |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 son |
Giuseppe "Beppe" Menegatti (6 September 1929 – 17 September 2024) was an Italian theatre director.
Life
Born in Florence, Menegatti attended performances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young boy. 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.[1] He collaborated during his career with Eduardo De Filippo and Vittorio De Sica.[2]
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]
He directed many of the shows of his wife, ballerina Carla Fracci,[4] whom he married in 1964 and with whom he 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.[7]
References
- ^ "Beppe Menegatti". sipario.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "Biografia di Beppe Menegatti". cinquantamila.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors' Edition". gramilano.com (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ a b Balmer, Crispian (27 May 2021). "Italy's leading prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, dies at 84". Reuter. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Brug, Manuel (28 May 2021). "Zum Tod der Primaballerina Carla Fracci". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ Adnkronos (2024-09-17). "Morto Beppe Menegatti, regista e marito di Carla Fracci: aveva 95 anni". Adnkronos. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
External links
- Beppe Menegatti, husband Carla Fracci italy24news.com 27 May 2021