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Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi

Catania

The boxes at the back of the hall are equipped with red FBR - Bruxelles velvet curtains and valances.The front stage and hall lighting are suspended from 7TX30 - Triangular trusses 29 cm.The ceiling of the hall ...
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... is covered in black CGO - Gobbi cloth and is countertoped with a black BSU - Super Gobelin tulle Ceiling ...
... which has aesthetic and acoustic functions.Some Austrian making curtains are installed on the sides of the stalls, they are made of FBR - Bruxelles velvet and ...
... as well as having decorative purposes, they are Acoustic curtains which contribute to optimizing the acoustics of the hall.The Traveller curtain is also ...
... made of red FBR - Bruxelles velvet, and it is equipped with a mobile valance and has a manual opening system ...
... made with a Kompas track system that can free up the proscenium in full.Even the mobile valance ...
... can be lifted thanks to one of the Manual fly facilities with which the stage is equipped.The Scenographic quadrature, which is composed of Portals made of framed ASC - Sceno muslin and is painted with trompe-l'oeil draperies is thus exhibited, preceded by a framed top executed with the same technique ...
... which is here photographed during its realization in the painting workshop, where it was also painted ...
The Opera dei Pupi, of Spanish origin, it is practiced in Sicily from the first half of the '800 by dynasties of ''mastri pupari'' like the Crimi, the Grasso and the Greco.
Its shows of marionettes tells of adventures of the paladins of the Carolingian cycle.
Architectural and
scenographical design
Riccardo Perricone
Structural engineer
Giuseppe Raspanti
Carpentry works
Premiata Fonderia Medulla

Materials used in this production

1K - Kompas

Track systems

3C - Canapa Rope

Ropes

7TX30 - Triangular trusses 29 cm

Aluminium trusses

9MA - Mantegno

Rigging accessories

Acoustic curtains

Acoustic curtains

ANM - Nomentana

Muslin and canvas

BSU - Super Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

CGO - Gobbi

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

FBR - Bruxelles

·Limited fabrics·

Fixed pulleys

Rigging systems

Main curtains

Curtains for historical theaters

Manual fly facilities

Rigging systems

Scenographic quadratures

Frames for stagecraft

Traveller curtains

Typology of curtain

Tubes

Bars for stagecraft

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