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Frida Parmeggiani (* 1946 in Meran) is an Italian costume designer.
After a tailoring apprenticeship she worked as a fashion illustrator in Zurich. In 1973 she worked as an intern and assisted at the Schaubühne in Berlin, after which she became a costume designer.
Her first significant own work she performed on October 1, 1976 in the performance of the plays of that time and kicks by author Samuel Beckett at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. After that she worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater.
From 1976 to 1978 she was employed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Important performances there were Clare Boothe Luces women in New York (premiere September 17, 1976, director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Stella (premiere March 4, 1977, director: Wilfried Minks), Die Wupper (premiere May 3, 1978, director: Jürgen Flimm) and in the case J. Robert Oppenheimer (Premiere November 19, 1977, director: Dieter Giesing).
After that she worked as a freelance costume designer in Bremen, Düsseldorf and Berlin. In 1979 she was used at the Bayreuth Festival in the performance of Lohengrin (director: Götz Friedrich). At the performance of Rienzi (premiere 6 July 1983, director: Hans Lietzau) at the Bavarian State Opera she was again responsible for the costuming of a work by Richard Wagner.
It was followed again work at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (The robbers, premiere October 28, 1983 and Minna von Barnhelm, premiere September 30, 1984, director of both: Ernst Wendt) and at the Stuttgart State Opera (King Hirsch premiere in 1985, director: Hans Hollmann ). At the Bavarian State Opera in 1987 she equipped the complete Ring des Nibelungen (director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff).
In 1987 her collaboration with Robert Wilson began at the performance of quartet by Heiner Müller (premiere June 18, 1987 in the Schlosstheater Ludwigsburg). Important productions included The Black Rider (world premiere March 31, 1990, Thalia Theater Hamburg), Alice (world premiere December 19, 1992, Thalia Theater), Time Rocker (premiere June 12, 1996, Thalia Theater) and Parsifal (Premiere 21. March 1991, State Opera).
She worked at the Salzburg Festival in 1995 (Duke Bluebeard's Castle), in 1997 (Pelléas and Melisande) and in 1998 (Danton's Death). In 1999 Parmeggiani designed the costumes for Alceste and Orfeo ed Euridice at the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet. From 2000 to 2002 she worked in Zurich (The Ring of the Nibelung) and in 2005/2006 at the Los Angeles Opera (Parsifal).
From 1989 to 2000 she taught costume design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and from 2002 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1981 she received the Berlin Art Prize, a sponsored by the Academy of Arts award; In 1990 she was awarded by Theater today as the best costume designer of the year for her work on the piece Black Rider.