Education
Born in Turin, Italy, Canonero studied art, design history and costume design in Genoa.
Born in Turin, Italy, Canonero studied art, design history and costume design in Genoa.
She then moved to England, where she began working in small theatre and film productions. While designing for commercials in London, she met many film directors. Her first major film work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick"s A Clockwork Orange (1971) after having met Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Canonero has also designed the costumes for several stagings directed by Otto Schenk, such as Il trittico (Puccini, Vienna State Opera 1979), As You Like lieutenant (Shakespeare, Salzburg Festival 1980), Die Fledermaus (Strauss, Vienna State Opera 1980), Andrea Chénier (Giordano, Vienna State Opera 1981), and Arabella (Strauss, Metropolitan Opera 1983).
Foreign director Luc Bondy she created the costumes for new productions of Puccini"s Tosca (Metropolitan Opera, 2009), and of Euripides" Helena (Burgtheater, Vienna, 2010). In 1986, Canonero became the costume designer for the television series Miami Vice.