Piccolo Teatro, ''The Tempest''
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The original scenographical installation conceived by Luciano Damiani, with the ample proscenium in front on the stage and the big shutters opened on it.
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Photo © Luciano Damiani / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The sketches by Damiani illustrate the use of a big backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk with flat making to stylize the waves of the sea.

Damiani used the lightness of the silk ...
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Photo © Luciano Damiani / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
... to create a fluctuating very shaken surface that simulated the stormy sea.
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Photo © Luciano Damiani / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
He got it placing under the backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk several mimes shooking upward their arms ...
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Photo © Luciano Damiani / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
... and it was a brilliant scenographical invention that characterized the show and that was an epoch-making event.
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The staging of the famous effect conceived by Damiani.

The background lighting is obtained with a Rear-illuminated cyclorama made of the film RTE - Temporale.
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
Luciano Damiani used the HSE - Tempesta silk, one of his preferred scenographical materials, also to make a big semitransparent sail ...
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
... that was shaked by the wind of the storm.
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The type of silk chosen by Luciano Damiani for this stage set ...
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
... became a classical of scenography.
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
And since then it was denominated, in Peroni's catalog ...
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Photo © Luigi Ciminaghi / Piccolo Teatro di Milano
... with the name of this famous stage set of the Piccolo Teatro.