Beppe Menegatti

Beppe Menegatti (born Giuseppe Menegatti; 6 September 1929), is an Italian theatre director.

Beppe Menegatti

Life

Born in Florence, Menegatti attended performances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at a young boy. The Silvio D'Amico National Academy in Rome awarded him a scholarship. In the mid-1950s he was called by Luchino Visconti as assistant director.[1] He collaborated during his career with Eduardo De Filippo and Vittorio De Sica.[2]

He has directed operas, ballets and plays by important authors, including, in 1964, the Italian premiere of Samuel Beckett's Play and that of Isaac Babel's Maria.[3]

He directed many of the shows of his wife, ballerina Carla Fracci,[4] whom he married in 1964 and with whom he had a son, Francesco, born in 1969.[5][6] She died on 27 May 2021.[4]

References
  1. "Beppe Menegatti". sipario.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. "Biografia di Beppe Menegatti". cinquantamila.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  3. "Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors' Edition". gramilano.com (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. Balmer, Crispian (27 May 2021). "Italy's leading prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, dies at 84". Reuter. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. Bandettini, Anna (27 May 2021). "L'addio a Carla Fracci, il marito Beppe Menegatti: "Mi hanno chiamato da tutto il mondo, una cascata di amore per lei"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  6. Brug, Manuel (28 May 2021). "Zum Tod der Primaballerina Carla Fracci". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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