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Angelo Quaglio the younger (13 December 1829,
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- 5 January 1890, Munich)) was a German
stage designer Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trai ...
of
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descent. He worked mainly in
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, and assisted
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
in the premieres of a number of his works. Angelo was part of the
Quaglio The surname Quaglio belongs to a large family of artists, both painters, architects, and scenographers ( stage designers), originally from Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano. They were active mainly from the 17th to 20th century, both in Ital ...
family originally from the town of
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, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano. Simon Quaglio (1795–1878) was a German
stage designer Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trai ...
. He worked mainly in
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, and was among the first designers to use built scenery instead of painted flats. He designed over 100 productions during his career. Simon's father,
Giuseppe Quaglio Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg. Vinicius de Castro Quaglio (April 27, 1989) family ties in Brazil Born in ...
(1747–1828), practiced scene painting in
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. Simon's brother, Angelo Quaglio the Elder (1778—1815) was an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Sulpiz Boisserée's work on
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References

* *James Anderson, ''The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta''. 1829 births 1890 deaths German scenic designers 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{germany-music-bio-stub