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Teatro Verdi, ''Iris''

Trieste

The rising sun of dawn is here stylised with a round panel covered with RTE - Temporale rear-projection film which stands out against a sky represented with a backlit backdrop made of the same material.The sun develops in Iris a primary symbolic role, the Inno del sole (Hymn of the sun) is one of the most meaningful moments of the opera.For the protagonist, a simple girl ...
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... who finds more understanding in the elements of nature than among her peers, its light is one of the few reasons for joy in life.With the rear-illumination of the backdrop and the frontal one of the circle and of the wings of the stage masking, also covered with RTE - Temporale, the scenography gets several independent levels of chromatic and light's intensity adjustment, as in this example ...
... where three levels of illumination are visible: the irises and the protagonist, in the foreground, enjoy a top side lighting that makes them stand out against the disk of the sun, in the background.Which is darkened by the backlight created by the Rear-illuminated backdrop, which diffuses a grey atmosphere ...
... which is contrasted here with violence by the red lights frontally projected on the wings covered with the film RTE - Temporale, with an effect that mirrors the as many marked chromatic contrasts that have been chosen for the costumes.A small backdrop made of BGO - Gobelin tulle, that brings painted Japanese ideograms, is suspended in transparency in front of the RTE - Temporale backdrop.
Backdrop made of HSP - Tempesta Poly digital printing. The critics generally pointed out this Iris as one of the best results in stage direction of the director of Il Carrozzone, that, thanks to the scenes by Pier Paolo Bisleri and to the costumes by Giovanna Buzzi, released the installation from the easy liberty decorations without excluding «... winks to the world of the manga comic strips ...»
«... or to other expressive formulas that, with an incessant rhythm, come up to us from distant Japan. Everything is a game of cross-references and contaminations, the one we see in the show [ ... ] that has its stylistic figure really in his acclaimed unhomogeneity.» Rino Alessi, from L'opera, ibidem.In this scene, on the RTE - Temporale screen ...
... filtered through a BGO - Gobelin tulle, manga-style animations by Antilena Nicolizas are rear-projected, and they are interacting with the singers.The direction by Federico Tiezzi aimed to depict a dreamlike Japan where tradition blends and interacts with modernity.
The background of green light of the scene is obtainded with the use of a Rear-illuminated backdrop realized with the film for rear-projections RNV - Nevada.The installation, in the consistent series of collaborations among Federico Tiezzi and the scenographer of Trieste Pier Paolo Bisleri, had «... the main worth ...»
Iris
Opera in three acts
Music
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Libretto
Luigi Illica
First night
Rome, Teatro dell'Opera, 22/11/1898
Scenography
Pier Paolo Bisleri
Costume design
Giovanna Buzzi
Scenographical workshop direction
Giampiero Ferlan (1948-2014)
Light design
Iuraj Saleri
Choreography
Virgilio Sieni
Stage direction
Federico Tiezzi
Staging
Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste
Co-production
Teatro Carlo Goldoni of Livorno
Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari
Season
2007/2008

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BGO - Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

CPA - Boccascena

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

HSP - Tempesta Poly digital printing

Printing on fabrics

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

RNV - Nevada

Rear projection

RTE - Temporale

Rear projection

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