The Hungarian State Opera, the Pest Hungarian Theatre and the Madách Theatre, for whom Vágó worked, offered their condolences.
Vágó was born in Budapest in 1937. After graduating from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts, she started her career at the Szigligeti Theatre of Szolnok, in central Hungary. In 1991, she became chief costume designer at the Hungarian State Opera. Her costumes could be seen in productions of Aida, Othello, Tosca, Un Ballo in Machera, Wagner?s Ring cycle, A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Carmen, The Taming of the Shrew and Bánk Bán.
In addition to the Hungarian State Opera, Vágó?s works could be seen at many theatres in Budapest and around the country. She also made costumes for productions in Vienna, Berlin and Tbilisi.
Vágó?s costumes were characterised by an expressive use of fabrics and rich variety of colour and form. She was an artist with many talents whose abstract designs were as powerful as her period clothing.
Vágó taught at the College of Fine Arts from 1991 and she was head of department between 1991 and 2001. She was awarded the Kossuth Prize, Hungary?s highest award for artists, in 2006.
Among the productions Vágó designed costumes for were Madách?s The Tragedy of Man, Chekhov?s Three Sisters and Brecht-Weil?s Three-penny Opera. Her costumes have also been featured in classic Hungarian films such as ?Szindbád?, ?Cat?s Play?, ?141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence?, ?Spider Football?, ?Dreaming Youth?, ?The Stud Farm? and ?Hanussen?.
