A preparation that belongs to the history of the modern scenography: Luciano Damiani experimented in a revolutionary and definitive way the use of the silk for scenography, that since then on, in Italy - and in many other countries - it was called ...
Damiani used the lightness of the HSE - Tempesta silk to create a shaken and fluctuating surface that simulated the stormy sea, having under the backdrop made of silk numerous actors that shook upward their arms.
The transparency of the white draperies made of HSE - Tempesta silk, placed side by side to the black ones made of EVT - Light Sceno Poly that have been stretched on the frames.
The colonnade of the previous photo, and the Pompeian frescoes in this one, are instead rear-projected on a RCO - Colorado backdrop and they can be seen in semi-transparency through the silk.
A transparent drapery made of white HSE - Tempesta silk creates a bond among the symbol of an impossible terrestrial purity - the source in the center of the stage - and the celestial transcendence.
The backdrop, installed flat and tense, thanks to the strong light reflection properties assumed with great effectiveness the colorations of the illumination: greyish in this case ...
... or blue in the scene of the famous Barcarolle.
Pier Luigi Pizzi exploited the extreme lightness of the fabric giving it a continuous superficial movement that conferred to the backdrop a swaying and amazing vitality.