Biography
In mid-June 2019, all Italy plunged into the sorrow: director Franco Dzeffirelli died in Rome, who did not live for 4 years before his century. He was rightly called a large artist, the last titan in the field of art, a man of Renaissance, God - Matru was lucky to work with Placido Domingo and Elena Exena, be friends with Maria Callas and Elizabeth Taylor and prove that William Shakespeare will be successful even without a superstar in Main roles.Childhood and youth
Jan Franco Corsa Dzeffirelli (those full name and surname directed by the director), on February 12, 1923, - the fruit of the illegal love of the fashion designer Alaid Gauri and the wool trader and Silk Fiercely Corsa, who came to the distant relative, Leonardo da Vinci. Mother, from the words of the legend, fiercely defended his right to life, but unfortunately left this world when the son turned 6 years old.
Embed from getty imagesThe child's education was engaged in aunt, hotly loved nephews, and father. The boy grew under the patronage of the British diaspora, closely connected with the "scorpions", where Mary O'Neill was pierced by the governess, the parent's assistant (all this was reflected in the autobiographical film "Tea with Mussolini"). The woman instilled Franco Love for Shakespeare, especially the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
At the beginning of the 40s, the young man graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence - the First Academy of Painting in Europe, enrolling in the Florentine University. But the Second World War interrupted his studies: the young man turned out to be a guerrilla of the Italian resistance movement, and later served as a translator.
Returning from the front, the guy made an attempt to recover at the university, but, having acquainted with the "Chronicle of King Henry V and his battles with the French at Azenkur," decided to give all himself the theater and cinema. In his hometown, he worked as a scene designer, then moved to Rome, where he became a theater artist and an actor and received the basics of directorial art from Lukino Wisconti, for him, decoring the "Wish" tram "," Three sisters ", etc.
Personal life
The legendary artist of art has repeatedly managed to experience the most important human feeling. The man frank himself that he loved a lot, and the love itself was both illness and medicine.In 1996, Franco made a statement regarding personal life: he admitted that he was a homosexual (the term "gay" preferred not to use due to the "intentibility"). For several years he was associated with Lukino Wisconti, who also did not hide their sexual orientation.
Dzeffirelli adopted Pippo and Luciano boys, the children were engaged in the affairs of the Father in the last years of life.
As for personal preferences, the Italian suffered passionately for the Fiorentina football club, he considered the unsurpassed director Charlie Chaplin, allocated Federico Fellini, Grigory Chukhray, Vladimir Naumova, Joseph Heifica.
Creation
In 1953, the premiere of Opera Joakkino Rossini "Cinderella" was held on the stage "La Scala". The audience remained in a wild delight. Within the 60s, he put performances not only in native Italy, but also in the United States, and in the UK, and also created a libretto to "Anthony and Cleopatre", which was successful in the Metropolitan-Opera, as well as "Tosca ", And" Turandot ", and" Don Juan ".
By the beginning of the next decade, the master switched to cinema. Franco was shielded by the work of his beloved playwright, removing the "Taming of the Shrew" and "Romeo and Juliet", showed himself to create religious paintings ("Brother Sun, Sister Moon", "Jesus of Nazareth") and film adapters of opera works ("Traviata", "Othello ").
Embed from getty imagesIn the future, the filmography was enriched "Jane Eyre", "Hamlet", "Tea with Mussolini" and "Callas forever".
"In all my films there is something from me. I was a Hamlet, Katharina in the "Taming of the Shrew" and Character Jeremy Irons in Callas Forever. In the end, each director always talks about himself. Wisconti became all his heroes, even fishermen in Asitzze, "the director confessed in an interview.Death
On June 15, 2019, the legendary director died in Rome in a very migrated age - 96 years. The cause of death served as a long disease. At his testament, cremation and burial in the family tomb of Port Sante, where the graves of relatives and close to the Great Italian are located.In the 2003th memory of Matra Sandro Lai devoted the documentary film "Franco Dzeffirelli: Magic Rhythm of Life", containing rare photos, video and interviews, and in 2017 an international center of theatrical art of Franco Dziffieldlli opened.
Filmography
- 1966 - "Florence: Destruction Days"
- 1967 - "Taming of the Shrew"
- 1968 - Romeo and Juliet
- 1972 - "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"
- 1977 - "Jesus of Nazareth"
- 1978, 1982 - "Rural Honor"
- 1979 - "Champion"
- 1981 - "Infinite Love"
- 1983 - "Traviata"
- 1986 - "Othello"
- 1990 - "Hamlet"
- 1994 - "Sparrow"
- 1996 - "Jane Eyre"
- 1999 - "Tea with Mussolini"
- 2002 - "Callas Forever"