Aldo Trionfo (12 December 1921 – 6 February 1989) was an Italian theatre director.
Life and career
Born in
Genoa
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into a Jewish family, during the
war years Trionfo was forced to escape to
Lausanne
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where he graduated in Engineering, started practicing as a mime and became friends with
Emanuele Luzzati
Emanuele Luzzati (3 June 1921 – 26 January 2007) was an Italian painter, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator. He was nominated for Academy Awards for two of his short films, ''La gazza ladra'' (''The Thieving Magpie'' ...
and
Alessandro Fersen
Alessandro Fersen (5 December 1911 – 3 October 2001) was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher.
Life
He was born as Aleksander Fajrajzen in Łódź to a Jewish family, that moved to Genoa in 1913. ...
.
Between 1947 and 1953 he worked as an actor, set designer and costume designer in the stage company "Il carrozzone".
Trionfo first became well known for the
Avant-garde
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theatre "La borsa d'Arlecchino", which he founded in 1957 in his hometown.
[ He was the artistic director of the Teatro Stabile in ]Turin
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between 1972 and 1976, and he directed the drama school Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the a ...
from 1980 to 1986.[ The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre wrote about his art: "Trionfo made a name for himself by extending the limits of classical and modern plays using the exaltation of crude and grotesque intonations".]
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1921 births
1989 deaths
Theatre people from Genoa
Italian theatre directors
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni
20th-century Italian Jews
Italian expatriates in Switzerland