Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics. He was also known for several of the movies he directed, especially the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well. His miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries. A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE. He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.

Фільмографія

• 2025The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème — Stage Director
• 2024Giacomo Puccini: Turandot — Stage Director
• 2022Carmen aus der Arena von Verona — Director
• 2022Georges Bizet: Carmen — Director
• 2022La Traviata — Stage Director, Production Design
• 2022The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot — Director
• 2022Turandot — Director
• 2020Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore — Director, Set Designer
• 2019La Bohème - Wiener Staatsoper — Director
• 2019La Traviata - Arena di Verona — Director
• 2019The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot — Production Design, Set Designer, Director
• 2018The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème — Director, Production Design, Set Designer
• 2017Zeffirelli's Inferno — Director, Writer
• 2015Don Giovanni — Director
• 2014Carmen (Arena di Verona) — Director
• 2014The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème — Production Design
• 2011Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona — Director
• 2010Carmen — Director
• 2009Puccini: Turandot — Production Design
• 2008Puccini: La Bohème — Director, Stage Director
• 2006Verdi: Aida — Director
• 2004La Boheme — Director
• 2004Madama Butterfly — Director
• 2003Bizet: Carmen — Stage Director
• 2002Callas Forever — Director, Screenplay, Original Story
• 2002La Traviata — Director
• 2001Aida — Director
• 2000Don Giovanni — Production Design, Director
• 1999Tea with Mussolini — Novel, Director
• 1997Carmen — Director
• 1996Джейн Ейр — Screenplay, Director
• 1994Sparrow — Director, Screenplay
• 1993Falstaff — Director, Production Design, Set Designer
• 1992Don Carlo — Director
• 1991The King of Ads — Director
• 1990Don Giovanni — Production Design
• 1990Hamlet — Director, Screenplay
• 198912 Directors for 12 Cities — Director
• 1988Young Toscanini — Director, Original Story
• 1987Pagliacci — Director
• 1987Turandot — Director, Production Design
• 1986Otello — Director, Adaptation, Production Design
• Television
• 1985Tosca — Set Designer, Director
• 1982Cavalleria rusticana — Director
• 1982La traviata — Director, Adaptation, Production Design
• 1982Puccini: La bohème — Director, Production Design, Set Designer
• 1981Endless Love — Director
• 1979La Bohème — Production Design, Director
• 1979The Champ — Director
• 1978Callas: A Documentary — Narrator
• 1978Carmen — Director
• 1978Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci — Director
• 1978Otello - The Met — Director
• The South Bank Show
• Jesus of Nazareth — Director, Writer, Creator
• 1977Lorenzaccio — Stage Director
• 1976Verdi: Otello — Stage Director
• 1972Brother Sun, Sister Moon — Director, Screenplay
• Who's Afraid of Opera? — Costume Designer
• 1968Ромео і Джульєтта — Director, Screenplay
• 1967Much Ado About Nothing — Stage Director
• 1967Приборкання норовливої — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1966For Florence — Director
• 1965La Bohème - Teatro alla Scala — Director, Production Design
• 1964Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II — Lighting Supervisor, Director
• 1962Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964 — Music Director, Stage Director
• 1958Camping — Director, Screenplay
• 1955The Bachelor — First Assistant Director
• 1954Senso — Assistant Director
• 1953Empty Eyes — First Assistant Director
• 1952Bellissima — Assistant Director
• 1949La Terra Trema — Assistant Director
• 1947Angelina — Filippo Garrone
• 1947L'ACCADEMIA MUSICALE CHIGIANA — Scenic Artist, Costume Coordinator
• Omaggio a Roma — Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (29)

• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist — Self
• 2017The Opera House — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Self - Director
• 2014The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films — Self
• 2014The Mystery of Dante — Self
• 2011Discovering Hamlet — Self
• 2008Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel — Self
• 2007Callas Assoluta — Self (archive footage)
• Legends — Self
• 2006Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema — Self
• 2004Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love — Self
• 2002Luchino Visconti — Self
• 2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul — Self
• Sternstunde Kunst — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1994A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota — Self
• 1983StrataSphere: Portrait of Teresa Stratas — self
• 1980My Name Is Anna Magnani — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1973Pulcinella - Ieri e oggi — Self - Documentary host
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1967Our World — Self
• 1966The New Met: Countdown to Curtain — Self
• aspekte — Self
• Tempo — Self