Franco Dragone Cause of Death

Franco Dragone was an Italian-born Belgian theatre director. He was born on 12 December 1952 and died 30 September 2022 at the age of 69.

What was Franco Dragone’s cause of death? Dragone died from a heart attack in Cairo, Egypt.

In 2003, Dragone created A New Day… starring Céline Dion at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and when A New Day ended its run in 2007, Billboard reported it as the highest-grossing residency of all time.

In 2005, Dragone debuted his fourth production on the Las Vegas Strip with the opening of Le Rêve at the Wynn Las Vegas and for this show, he used performers mainly from disciplines related to gymnastics, similar to his 1998 show O for Cirque du Soleil, Le Rêve where he made extensive use of a custom-designed water stage.

Dragone’s shows tend to have a very large scale.

For example La Perle, showcased in a new theater of the same name, was his first permanent show in the Middle East, with stunts such as “performers flying across the stage at 15 kilometers an hour before diving from heights of 25 meters into the 860-square-meter pool and seemingly disappearing, only to return from land seconds later.”

It was themed to “capture of essence of Dubai” and its negotiations of opposing elements, such as water and desert, and tradition and modernity.

It also featured traditional pearl diving themes.

The show took $400 million to create, with 450 performances held a year.

According to CNN, the stage was “an engineering feat, holding a colossal 2.7 million liters of recycled water — enough to fill an Olympic pool — which can be drained in less than a minute for land-based exploits.”

Concerning the unusually large scale of his productions, Dragone has remarked that “Greek tragedies were done in huge spaces, too.”