Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli was born in Florence in 1923. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, he also studied architecture, then from 1948 became Luchino Visconti's assistant in cinema and the designer of his theatre productions. An opera director from the 1950s, he worked at the great opera houses of the world. He sat in the Italian Senate from 1994 to 2001, elected for Forza Italia, and died in Rome in 2019.

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• CinemaRomeo and JulietFranco Zeffirelli · 1968Cinema