Frida Parmeggiani
Frida Parmeggiani (* 1946 in Merano ) is an Italian costume designer .
Life
After training as a tailor, she worked as a fashion illustrator in Zurich. In 1973 she interned and assisted at the Berlin Schaubühne , after which she became a costume designer.
She performed her first major work of her own on October 1, 1976, when the plays Damals und Kicks by author Samuel Beckett were performed at the Schillertheater Berlin . She then worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Kammerspiele of the German Theater .
From 1976 to 1978 she was employed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Important performances there were Clare Boothe Luce's Women in New York (premiere September 17, 1976, director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder ), Stella (premiere March 4, 1977, director: Wilfried Minks ), Die Wupper (premiere May 3, 1978, director: Jürgen Flimm ) and In the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer (premiere November 19, 1977, director: Dieter Giesing ).
Then she worked as a freelance costume designer in Bremen, Düsseldorf and again in Berlin. In 1979 she was used at the Bayreuth Festival in the performance of Lohengrin (director: Götz Friedrich ). For the performance of Rienzi (premiere July 6, 1983, director: Hans Lietzau ) at the Bavarian State Opera , she was again responsible for the costumes for a work by Richard Wagner .
This was followed by work again at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus ( Die Räuber , premiere October 28, 1983 and Minna von Barnhelm , premiere September 30, 1984, director of both: Ernst Wendt ) and at the Stuttgart State Opera ( König Hirsch , world premiere 1985, director: Hans Hollmann ). In 1987 she decorated the entire Ring des Nibelungen at the Bavarian State Opera (director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff).
1987 began its collaboration with Robert Wilson at the performance of Quartet by Heiner Müller (June 18, 1987 at the Premiere Palace Theater Ludwigsburg ). Important productions included The Black Rider (world premiere March 31, 1990, Thalia Theater Hamburg ), Alice (world premiere December 19, 1992, Thalia Theater), Time Rocker (world premiere June 12, 1996, Thalia Theater) and Parsifal (premiere 21 December 1992) . March 1991, State Opera).
She worked at the Salzburg Festival in 1995 ( Duke Bluebeard's Castle ), 1997 ( Pelléas and Melisande ) and 1998 ( Danton's death ). In 1999, Parmeggiani designed the costumes for Alceste and Orfeo ed Euridice at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris . From 2000 to 2002 she worked in Zurich ( Der Ring des Nibelungen ) and 2005/2006 at the Los Angeles Opera ( Parsifal ).
From 1989 to 2000 she taught costume design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and from 2002 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1981 she received the Berlin Art Prize , a sponsorship prize awarded by the Academy of the Arts ; In 1990 she was named best costume designer of the year by Theater heute for her work on the play Black Rider .
literature
- Meran Art , Mozarteum University Salzburg (ed.): Frida Parmeggani. Costume abstractions. With contributions by Silke Geppert, Elfriede Jelinek , Ursula Schnitzer, C. Bernd Sucher and Robert Wilson. Schlebrügge Editor, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902833-94-5
Web links
- Frida Parmeggiani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography (English) / LA Opera ( Memento from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Interview with Frida Parmeggiani in alpenrosen - annual magazine for women's culture in South Tyrol, 2008
- Roman Tschiedl: Frida Parmeggiani: " Costume abstractions " , Ö1 Leporello , October 4, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Akademie der Künste Berlin: Berlin Art Prize Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parmeggiani, Frida |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meran |