Emanuele Luzzati Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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) (1965) and Pulcinella (1973).He was born in Genoa and turned to drawing in 1938 when, as a Jew, his academic studies were interrupted by the introduction of the Fascist racial laws. He moved in Switzerland with his family and studied in Lausanne, where he obtained his degree at the local École des Beaux-Arts. He designed his first production of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in 1944, a collaboration with his friends Alessandro Fersen, Aldo Trionfo and Guido Lopez. He returned in Italy after the war.His first work as an animator was the short film I paladini di Francia, together with Giulio Gianini, in 1960.He provided designs for the London Festival Ballet, the Chicago Opera House, the Vienna Staatsoper and the Glyndebourne Festiva, including several Mozart productions and Verdi's Macbeth produced by Michael Hadjimischev in 1972.Luzzati was interested in tarot symbolism, which he used in scenographies for Fabrizio de André concerts in the 1990s.
He was born into a Jewish family. When Mussolini's government passed race laws in 1938, Luzzati moved to Switzerland and attended a fine arts school. After the war, he returned to Italy and began his career as a set designer in Milan. In the 1950s, he concentrated on bas-reliefs and columns. He also created illustrations for children's books, paintings, sculptures, and decor for cruise ships.
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He is famous for his colorful, dreamlike sets featuring figures and landscapes that seem to come from fairy tales.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Duetto dei gatti
1985
Short
Pulcinella e il pesce magico
1981
Short
I tre fratelli
1979
Short
The Magic Flute
1978
Turandot
1974
Short
L'augellin Belverde
1973
Pulcinella
1973/I
Short
Il viaggio di Marco Polo
1972
Short
Alì Bab
1970
Short
L'italiana in Algeri
1968
Short
La gazza ladra
1965
Short
Pulcinella: Il gioco dell'oca
1961
Short
La tarantella di Pulcinella
1959
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Turandot
1974
Short screenplay
Il viaggio di Marco Polo
1972
Short screenplay
La gazza ladra
1965
Short story
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don Chisciotte
1983
as Lele Luzzati
Mozart's Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti
1975
TV Movie
The Earth Cries Out
1949
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pulcinella
1973/I
Short producer
Il viaggio di Marco Polo
1972
Short producer
La gazza ladra
1965
Short producer
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
La scala di seta
1988
TV Movie
Mozart's Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti
1975
TV Movie
Macbeth
1972
TV Movie
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mozart's Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti
1975
TV Movie graphics
L'augellin Belverde
1973
illustrator
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza
2003
character designer: "Pulcinella" - as Lele Luzzati
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
La gazza ladra
1965
Short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
For Love and Gold
1966
title design
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Aquarius
1974
TV Series
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1973
Silver Ribbon
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Best Director - Short Film (Regista del Miglior Cortometraggio)