Piero Zuffi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piero Zuffi

Italian scenographer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1919

Place of Birth: Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Sep-2006

Profession: painter, scenographer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Piero Zuffi (28 April 1919 – 2006) was an Italian set designer and painter. Born in Imola, Zuffi formed as a painter in Latin America.
After a few years settled in Paris, in 1952 he moved to Milan, where he started collaborating with the Piccolo Teatro as a set designer.
In 1954 he made the sets and costumes for a representation of the Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Alceste, starring Maria Callas, then starting a decade-long collaboration with La Scala.
His sets were characterized by fixed structures, lack of curtain and changes in vision.
Also active in films, he wrote and directed a crime film in 1970, The Syndicate: A Death in the Family.



Description	Italian photographer In 2008 his works have been bought by BEIC - Biblioteca Europea d'Informazione e Cultura (European Library for Information and Culture) of Milan. The whole amount of Paolo Monti's works consists of more than 220,000 photographic negatives, 12,000+ prints and 790 chemigrams that describe the story, society and culture of Italy from 1943 to 1982.
Date of birth/death	11 August 1908	29 November 1982
Location of birth/death	Novara	Milan
Authority control	: Q18169099 VIAF: 69014350 ISNI: 0000 0001 1827 5967 ULAN: 500034693 LCCN: n80066866 GND: 119177501 WorldCat