Franco Dragone
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Franco Dragone is a Belgian film and theatre director. His visibility greatly increased in the early 1990s after he directed and introduced the cutting-edge Cirque Du Soleil production Mystère at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, a production which changed the nature of Production shows in Las Vegas. Cirque Du Soleil benefited greatly from Franco's work; while he only directed one other show in Las Vegas, O in 1998, to many he was the face of Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas.
Franco also directed Cirque Du Soleil's first motion picture 'Alegria - An Enchanting Fable' in 1997.
[edit] Production History
Prior to joining Cirque, he worked as a director for theater and film.
Franco directed 10 productions for Cirque from 1985 to 1998. He used this period of time to merge, in a unique way, theater and the circus.
In 1999, he created Lara Fabian's video clip Adagio. In the following year he formed his own company called Dragone.
In 2003, Dragone shot A New Day... starring Céline Dion, which opened at Caesars Palace and continued his association with Las Vegas.
In 2005 Dragone debuted another show, his fourth, on the Las Vegas Strip with the opening of Le Rêve at the Wynn Las Vegas.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Franco Dragone at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile of Franco Dragone "Franco Dragone at the Limits of Las Vegas", by Chris Jones, from DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy.
