1944
All’Uscita (At the Gate), Luigi Pirandello. Teatro Quirino, Rome. Sets and costumes by Leonor Fini. On the same program: Rosario by Federico de Roberto and II Ciclope by Euripides, June.
Carmen (play), based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée, Teatro Quirino, Rome. Costumes by Leonor Fini, with Anna Magnani, Roldano Lupi, and Carlo Ninchi, November.
1949
Le Roi pêcheur, Julien Gracq. Théâtre du Montparnasse-Gaston Baty, Paris. Directed by Marcel Herrand, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Maria Casarès, Jean-Pierre Mocky.
1951
Le Timide du Palais, Tirso de Molina, adapted by François Billetdoux. Théâtre Gramont, Paris. Sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Rouvel, Danièle Lebrun, Yvan Dominique.
II Credulo, opera by Domenico Cimarosa. Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Directed by Giorgio Strehler, conducted by Nino Sanzogno, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Franca Duval, Elda Ribetti, Silvana Zanolli, Carlo Badioli. Premiere: 26 December 1951, performances: 31 December 1951; 5, 8 January 1952.
1952
L’Enlèvement au Sérail (Ratto dal Serraglio), (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Conducted by Jonel Perlea, directed by Ettore Giannini, sets by Gianni Ratto, costumes by Leonor Fini, with Maria Callas, 2, 5, 7, 9 April.
1953
Gala, Le Cirque, performed by Les Forains d’un Soir in aid of ESSOR, a charity for abandoned children, under a big top in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 11th act: Le Lion Rouge et Les Chimères, entertainment by Leonor Fini. The costumes of the lion, played by the Baron de Cabrol, and the three chimeras were donated and specially created by Jacques Griffe, after drawings by Leonor Fini.
Eté et fumées (Summer and smoke), Tennessee Williams, adapted by Paule de Beaumont. Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris. Music by Joseph Kosma, directed by Jean Le Poulain, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Silvia Monfort, Judith Magre, Gérard Blain.
La Vedova scaltra, (The Shrewd Widow), Carlo Goldoni. Piccolo Teatro company, Milan. Directed by Giorgio Strehler, sets by Fabrizio Clerici, costumes by Leonor Fini, with Romolo Valli, Laura Adani, Marina Dolfin, Mario Ferrari. Premieres: 7, 8 October 1953 at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, for the XIVe Festival International du Théâtre, performances: 12 October–15 November 1953 at the Piccolo Teatro, Milan; 26 October at Teatro Sociale, Biella; 9 November at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo; 16 November 1953 at Teatro Regio, Parma.
Chi è di scena ? (A qui le tour ?) musical revue by Anna Magnani and Michele Galdieri. Teatro all’Alfieri, Rome. Directed by Michèle Galdieri, costumes by Leonor Fini and Stanislao Lepri. Premiere: 9 January. At the Teatro di Via Manzoni, Milan in February, followed by a tour of a number of Italian towns.
Phèdre, Jean Racine. Sets and costumes by Leonor Fini. Designs completed, production not staged.
1954
La Volupté de l’Honneur, (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Luigi Pirandello, translation by Camille Mallarmé. Théâtre Saint-Georges, Paris. Directed by Jean Mercure, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jean Mercure, Jandeline, Robert Favart. On the same program: Une Visite de noces, Alexandre Dumas fils. Directed by Jean Mercure, sets by Leonor Fini, with Jandeline, Claudie Caren, Georges Descrières.
Un nommé Judas, (A Certain Judas), Claude-André Puget and Pierre Bost. Comédie-Caumartin, Paris. Directed by Jean Mercure, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Marguerite Jamois, Paul Meurisse, Anne Olivier. Premiere: 2 April.
Balmaseda, Maurice Clavel. Théâtre Hébertot, Paris. Directed by Marguerite Jamois, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Marguerite Jamois, Jacques Dumesnil, Catherine Sellers. On the same program: Le Retour de l’Enfant Prodigue, André Gide. Premiere: 26 October.
L’importance d’être aimé (The Importance of Being Earnest), Oscar Wilde, adapted by Jean Anouilh and Claude Vincent. Théâtre de la Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Directed by Claude Sainval, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Henri Gaultier, Yves Gladine, Claude Sainval, Yves Robert, Françoise Rosay. Premiere: 28 October. In performance at the same time (but without Leonor Fini’s involvement): L’Important c’est d’être fidèle, another adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play by Charles Cambillard at the Théâtre en Rond de Paris, directed by André Villiers.
Penthésilée, Heinrich von Kleist. Petit Théâtre Marigny, Paris. Sets and costumes by Leonor Fini. Designs completed, production not staged.
1955
Les Tournées Derbert, tour (Brussels, Lyons, Arles, etc.) of La Volupté de l’honneur by Pirandello and Une Visite de noces by Alexandre Dumas fils (same production as 1954). Sets and costumes by Leonor Fini.
Bérénice, Jean Racine. Compagnie Madeleine Renaud–J.-L. Barrault, Théâtre Marigny, Paris. Directed by J.-L. Barrault, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Marie Bell, Jean Chevrier, René Arrien, Jacques Dacqmine. Premiere: 13 January 1955.
Le Mal Court, Jacques Audiberti. Théâtre La Bruyère-Georges Vitaly, Paris. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Suzanne Flon, Aline Bertrand, Jacques Dufilho. Premiere: 15 December 1955.
1956
Les Amants puérils ( The Puerile Lovers), Fernand Crommelynck. Théâtre des Noctambules, Paris. Directed by Tania Balachova, sets by Leonor Fini, with Tatiana Moukhine, Bernard Fresson, Tania Balachova, Daniel Emilfork. Premiere: 28 March. (First performed at a gala evening at the Théâtre Montansier, on Tuesday, 13 March, with sets by N. Issaiev.)
La Revue de Pont-aux-Dames,musical review (one performance only), Le Théâtre de Paris, Paris. Costumes by Leonor Fini for one act. 10 November.
1957
La Mégère apprivoisée, (The Taming of the Shrew), Jacques Audiberti, after William Shakespeare. Théâtre de l’Athénée-Édouard VII, Paris. Premiere: 10 October. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Suzanne Flon, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Galabru.
1958
Le Système Ribadier, Georges Feydeau. Théâtre La Bruyère, Paris. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Piella Sorano, Claude Nicot, Jacques Dufilho. As curtain-raiser: Le Serment d’Horace, Henry Murger. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini.
1959
La Petite Femme de Loth, opera buffa, music by Claude Terrasse, lyrics by Tristan Bernard. Théâtre La Bruyère, Paris. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jacqueline Maillan, François Guérin, Jacques Dufilho.As curtain-raiser: Les Taureaux, opera, music by Jean Wiener, libretto and lyrics by Alexandre Arnoux, directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini.
1960
La Parisienne, Henry Becque. La Comédie-Française, Paris. Directed by Raymond Gérôme, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Georges Descrières, François Chaumette, Yvonne Gaudeau, Catherine Samie. As curtain-raiser: La Méprise, Marivaux. Premiere: 2 February.
Un Garçon d’Honneur, Antoine Blondin and Paul Guimard, after the Oscar Wilde short story, “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime.” Théâtre Marigny, Paris. Directed by Claude Barma, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jacques Duby, Anne Doat, Pierre Asso. Premiere: 9 March.
Les Bonnes, Jean Genet. Compagnie Bruzzichelli, Jean-Marie Serreau. Théâtre de France-Odéon, Paris. Directed by Jean-Marie Serreau, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Tatiana Moukhine, Reine Courtois, Yvonne Clech. Curtain-raiser: Amédée ou comment s’en débarrasser (Amedee, Or How to Get Rid of It), Eugène Ionesco.
1961
Le Chandelier,(The Candelabra), Alfred de Musset, with Jean-Laurent Cochet, André Brunot, Catherine Samie, and Une Visite de noces, Alexandre Dumas fils, with François Chaumette, Hélène Perdrière. La Comédie-Française, Paris. Directed by Raymond Gérôme, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini. Premiere: 1 October.
Casa de Muñecas (A Doll’s House), Henrik Ibsen. Teatro Eslava, Madrid. Directed by Juan de Prat Gay, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, assisted by Hector Bianciotti, with Enrique Diosdado, Maria Cuadra.
1962
Requiem pour une nonne (Requiem for a nun), William Faulkner, adapted by Albert Camus. Théâtre des Mathurins-Marcel Herrand, Paris. Directed by Albert Camus, sets by Leonor Fini, with Tatiana Moukhine, Michel Maurette, Catherine Sellers, Paul Guers, Bernard Andrieu (revival).
Le Misanthrope, Molière. Théâtre Gramont, Paris. Directed by René Dupuy, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with René Dupuy, Anne-Marie Mailfer, Danièle Lebrun.
Coralie et Cie, Albin Valabrègue and Maurice Hennequin. Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris. Directed by Jean Le Poulain, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jean Paredes, Maria Pacome, Guy Michel, Yvonne Clech, Marthe Mercadier.
1963
Tannhaüser, opera by Richard Wagner. Théâtre national de l’Opéra, Paris. Directed by Jean Le Poulain. Choreography by Michel Descombey, conducted by André Cluytens, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Régine Crespin, Rita Gorr, Hans Beirer, June.
1964
Lucrèce Borgia, Victor Hugo. Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Paris. Troupe du Vieux Colombier. Directed by Bernard Jenny, music by José Berghmans, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jacqueline Danno, François Maistre, Robert Etcheverry, Jacques Harden. Also performed at the Festival du Marais in June, at the Festival de Montauban and at the Théâtre des Galeries, Brussels.
La Fête noire, Jacques Audiberti. Festival du Marais, Paris. Company of the Théâtre La Bruyère. Directed by Georges Vitaly, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, assisted by Geneviève Sevin-Doering, with Claude Titre, Catherine Rouvel, Monique Delaroche, Jean Bolo, June.
1965
Holiday on Ice. Palais des Sports, Paris. Directed by Raymond Rouleau, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini for the finale, Paris la nuit, 1900, 18 February. World tour in 1965.
1966
Le Chandelier, Alfred de Musset. La Comédie-Française, Paris. Directed by Raymond Gérôme, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, music by Jacques Ibert (revival, premiere: 10 February).
1967
Bomarzo, opera by Alberto Ginastera, libretto by Manuel Mujica Lainez. Directed by Tito Capobianco, sets and costumes by Ming Cho Lee. World premiere at the Opera Society of Washington, Washington, D.C., 19 May. Set and costume designs were done by Leonor Fini, but owing to conflicts she withdrew from the production.
1969
Le Concile d’Amour, Oscar Panizza, adaptation de Jean Brejoux. Théâtre de Paris, Paris. Mise en scène de Jorge Lavelli, musique d’André Chamoux, décors et costumes de Leonor Fini, avec Jean Martin, Claudine Raffalli, Gilles Guillot, Denyse Roland, Paul Le Person, Juliette Villard. Coproducteurs : Lars Schmitt et Alain de Leseleuc. Prix des critiques pour la meilleure scénographie.
[Note : La première de cette production était prévue pour le Festival d’Avignon en 1968 mais a été annulée à cause des événements. Elle a donc été présentée au public en février 1969]
Le Balcon, Jean Genet. Nouveau Gymnase-Théâtre de Marseille, Marseille. Troupe du Centre dramatique du Sud-Est. Mise en scène d’Antoine Bourseiller, décors et costumes de Leonor Fini, avec Romain Weingarten, Virginie et François Billetdoux, Philippe Adrien, Claude Rich, Michel de Ré, Yves Lefebvre, Chantal Darget. Joué en alternance avec Le Métro fantôme de L. Jones. Première représentation : le 21 novembre.
1969
Le Concile d’Amour, Oscar Panizza, adapted by Jean Brejoux. Théâtre de Paris, Paris. Directed by Jorge Lavelli, music by André Chamoux, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Jean Martin, Claudine Raffalli, Gilles Guillot, Denyse Roland, Paul Le Person, Juliette Villard. Co-producers: Lars Schmitt and Alain de Leseleuc. Prix des critiques for best set design. (Note: This production was to have premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in 1968, but the engagement was cancelled due to the political situation at the time in France. Its first public performance was not until February 1969.)
Le Balcon, Jean Genet. Nouveau Gymnase-Théâtre de Marseille, Marseille. Company of the Centre Dramatique du Sud-Est. Directed by Antoine Bourseiller, sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, with Romain Weingarten, Virginie and François Billetdoux, Philippe Adrien, Claude Rich, Michel de Ré, Yves Lefebvre, Chantal Darget. Performed alternately with Le Métro fantôme by L. Jones. Premiere: 21 November.
1972
« Zizi, je t’aime » je t’aime revue, Roland Petit. Casino de Paris, Paris. Sets and costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Pace, Erté, André Beaurepaire, with Zizi Jeanmaire. Revue entitled Le Sabbat (with flying witches), sets and costumes by Leonor Fini, withdrawn by her owing to contractual conflict with producer Pierre Bergé before the premiere (20 February). Never performed.