biography
pronunciation:
[zefirelee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Stage, opera, and film director, born in Florence, NC Italy. He began his career as an actor and designer (1945–51), and during the 1950s produced many operas in Italy and abroad. His stage productions include Romeo and Juliet at the Old Vic (1960), universally acclaimed for its originality, modern relevance, and realistic setting in a recognizable Verona, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1964). He has also filmed lively and spectacular versions of The Taming of the Shrew (1966) and Romeo and Juliet (1968), and Jesus of Nazareth (1977) for television. Later productions include Young Toscanini (1988), Hamlet (1990), Jane Eyre (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1998), and film versions of the operas La traviata (1983) and Otello (1986). |
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