Peter J Hall obituary

Costume designer who collaborated with everyone from Zeffirelli to BowieWhen Franco Zeffirelli produced an opera, he hoped audiences would "revisit a lost planet". The costume designer Peter J Hall, who has died aged 84, worked with Zeffirelli for more than three decades, and was a key collaborator on his style of sumptuous, painterly nostalgia. Many 19th-century operas are set in a wistfully imagined past, which Zeffirelli and Hall animated with loving detail. The theatre scholar Dennis Kennedy...

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