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Teatro Regio di Torino, ''Manon Lescaut''

Turin

On the background, a Rear-illuminated backdrop manufactured with the film RNV - Nevada.The square in front of the inn of Amiens where the meeting between Des Grieux and Manon happens. The lyric play had been introduced to the public in 1893 really to the Teatro Regio in Turin, where he had gotten an uproarious success that, to the third opera, definitely consecrated the fame of Puccini.
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On the background, a Rear-illuminated backdrop manufactured with the film RCI-Cielo.The port of Le Havre, where Manon is to be embarked for America as a prostitute after having been caught by Geronte in the act to betray him with Des Grieux. The blue illumination and the misty sight on the ships to the berth through the backdrop are suggestive.
The room of Manon in the sumptuous Parisian abode of the old Geronte, of which she is become the lover, opens on a draped backdrop manufactured in white HSE - Tempesta silk.On the left, a draped backdrop made of ASC - Sceno muslin, natural colour.
The toilet of Manon, in a closer view that underlines the minuteness of the staging.
Manon Lescaut
Lyric drama in four acts
Music
Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924)
Libretto
anonymous author (with the collaboration by Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Domenico Oliva, Marco Praga, Giacomo Puccini)
First night
Turin, Teatro Regio, 1/2/1893
Scenography
Thierry Flamand
Costume design
Christian Gasc
Light design
Didier Flamand
Technical direction
Saverio Santoliquido
Stage direction
Jean Reno
with the collaboration of Didier Flamand
Staging
Teatro Regio of Turin
Season
2005 / 2006

Materials used in this production

ACN - Cencio di Nonna

Gauzes

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

GGI - Siria

Gauzes

HSE - Tempesta

Silks and satins

Rear-projection screens

Rear-projection screens

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

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