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Teatro San Carlo, ''Die Walküre''

Naples

The backlight created by a large Rear-illuminated backdrop made of RTE - Temporale film highlights a symbolic structure made of metal tubing ...
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... which recalls a famous polyhedron, the Rubik's Cube, a puzzle with infinite combinations which, once the fragments that make up the faces have been mixed, make it almost impossible to recompose them.The essential scenography by Giulio Paolini ...
... used the backlit backdrop for dry and calculated colour games ...
... which amplified the slow and profound impact of the musical conduction by Jeffrey Tate and of the stage direction by Federico Tiezzi.
Tiezzi's rereading, subtly tinged with philosophical and psychoanalytic implications ...
... finds roots in the great dramas of the decadence by Mann and Ibsen.
The stars and the planets, typical elements of Paolini's imaginary, assumes also in this case a metaphoric value: the scene seems overhung by the presence of the huge divine powers ...
Die Walküre
Action in three acts
Music
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Libretto
Richard Wagner
First night
Munich, Königliches Hof-und Nationaltheater, 26/6/1870
Scenography
Giulio Paolini
Costume design
Giovanna Buzzi
Technical direction
Nicola Rubertelli
Stage direction
Federico Tiezzi
Staging
Teatro San Carlo of Naples
Season
2004 / 2005

Materials used in this production

Giulio Paolini

Some Masters

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

Rear-projection screens

Rear-projection screens

RTE - Temporale

Rear-projection films

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