Overview
- According to his close circle, Zanetti felt ill during work linked to the opera Los cuentos de Hoffmann at the Teatro Colón, returned home and suffered a decompensation that caused his death on Friday.
- He had personally presented a retrospective at the Museo Francisco Tamburini in Córdoba just days before his death, underlining that he remained actively engaged in projects until the end.
- Coverage is consistent that he died suddenly in Buenos Aires but differs on his age at death, with some outlets reporting 79 and at least one reporting 77.
- Zanetti won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design for Restoration and later received an Oscar nomination for What Dreams May Come, after a five‑decade career across film, theatre, opera and painting.
- Cultural institutions and colleagues posted public condolences, and no official medical cause beyond the reported decompensation has been released so far, leaving immediate questions about the status of his unfinished work and upcoming events.