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Teatro Lirico, ''Die Feen''

Cagliari

A mock-up by Beni Montresor.«The first of the succeeded repêchages of Cagliari's theater, offers Montresor the occasion to create an absolutely fantastic environment, that invents arcane symbols. It dips, overlapping them the one to the others, different tulles variedly decorated with vegetable motives in the liquid-reflecting effect of a box of mirrors. »Gaetano Miglioranzi, Dal colore alla luce, Titivillus Publisher, 2004, page 135.
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The effect of the scene during the show.The trees with the big leaves, slightly painted with opportune shadings, were made of ASC1000S - Sceno 1.000 cm muslin.On the background, the scene is rear-illuminated with the blue light of a Rear-illuminated backdrop made with the film RTE - Temporale.
The same scene with a different illumination.Trees and leaves were sewn on two big backdrops manufactured with black BIT - Italiano tulle, set one in front of the other to create two overlapped layers and to give depth to the scene.The wide mesh of the BIT - Italiano tulle and the black color make the backdrops almost transparent, creating the impression that trees and leaves have a their own structure and hold up by themselves.
The first of the two backdrops made of BIT - Italiano tulle with leaves made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin has been raised here.«This way, from the dark atmospheres typically wagnerian of precipices, he passes with enchantment to the magic lightness of the ''palace of the woods'', in which the musical softness of a young Wagner is exalted, and sometimes remembers that of Mozart.»
The maquette of another scene, in which it is foreseen the use of a composite backdrop made of painted ASC1000S - Sceno 1.000 cm muslin (the rocks on the sides) and painted BGO - Gobelin tulle (the sky in the middle).In the background a rear-illuminated screen made of RTE - Temporale gives depth to the sky.
The realization of scene showed in previos maquette.The backdrops were painted by Paolino Libralato, irreplaceable collaborator of Montresor during the last decade of his life.To accent further the three-dimensionality of the scene, in front of the composite backdrop, on the sides, were put two scenes made of ASC1000S - Sceno 1.000 cm, shaped and framed, painted always with the motive of the rocks.
Another view of the same scene.As Montresors loved to do, the reflecting walls in which there are the entrances in the scene, were made of ZSK - Ultralight Mirrors, while the floor of the stage is covered with a mirroring rolled material.
The previous scene is here completed by a central panel on which is represented, painted on ASC1000S - Sceno 1.000 cm muslin, a layer of diamonds.
Die Feen
Great romantic opera in three acts
Music
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Libretto
Richard Wagner
from the dramatic fable The Snake Woman by Carlo Gozzi
First night
Munich, Königliches Hof-und Nationaltheater, 29/6/1888
Scenography,
costume design,
light design,
stage direction
Beni Montresor (1926-2001)
Pictorial realizations
Paolino Libralato
Technical direction
Massimo Teoldi
Staging
Teatro Lirico of Cagliari
Season
1998 / 1999

Video & Documentation

Paolino Libralato at work 1

Paolino Libralato at work 2

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

Beni Montresor - 100th ann.

Some Masters

BGO - Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

BIT - Italiano

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

RTE - Temporale

Rear projection

ZSK - Ultralight Mirror

Mirror / transparent backdrops

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