LILA DE NOBILI Theatre Dance Cinema

4 December 2014

by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

Famous for her reserve, Lila De Nobili (1916-2002)became a legend in spite of herself. Her name is inseparable from the scenography of several performances that went down in history,

De Nobili

above all the famous Traviata at La Scala in 1955 with Maria Callas, Carlo Maria Giulini and Luchino Visconti, changing forever the way of conceiving opera.
Born in a privileged world Lila De Nobili was an instant success after the Second World War, when she became the role model set and costume designer for Jean Cocteau, Raymond Rouleau, Peter Hall, Frederick Ashton, Tony Richardson, Franco Zeffirelli, Gian Carlo Menotti, in addition to Visconti himself.
She worked with Édith Piaf and Audrey Hepburn, Margot Fonteyn and Ingrid Bergman.
She was not yet sixty when she left it all behind, started all over to study painting, and withdrew in a bohemian loft under the rooftops of Paris.
Her nuanced, atmospheric brushstroke, swift and perfected with infinite glazing, enchanted generations of artists including Robert Wilson and David Hockney, who did her portrait.
The thousands of figures, faces and gestures that throng her stage work, but also the notebooks where she drew up to the very last, compose an immeasurably, stunningly rich comédie humaine.


OTHER VOLUMES PUBLISHED IN THE SERIES “SETTE DICEMBRE”

2006
Zeffirelli alla Scala

2007
Wagner alla Scala

2008
Femmes Fatales all’Opera
(Italian and English versions published)

2009
Caramba Mago del costume
(Italian and English versions published)

2010
La Scala di Napoleone. Spettacoli a Milano 1796-1814

2012
Giuseppe Palanti. Belle Époque in Teatro 1903-1916

2013
Sanquirico. Teatro, Feste, Trionfi 1777-1849


Further info about volumes:

Amici della Scala
Press Office
info@amicidellascala.it
02.7601.3856

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