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Teatro alla Scala, ''Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria''

Milan

The painter Paolino Libralato, here in the middle of the photo, painted ...
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... a backdrop made of ASC1220S - Sceno 1.200 cm muslin, 22 x 12 m.The painting reproduces and revises in a gigantic size the famous painting Le Printemps by Nicolas Poussin, preserved today at the Louvre in Paris.
The scene is crossed by some symbolic presences:an elderly man and a child (the man's ages), a turtle, a white rabbit, a gigantic champagne glass, while some red apples slowly fall from the tree.
A Rear-illuminated backdrop made of RNV - Nevada film, 22 x h 12 m, and filtered through a backdrop made of grey BIT - Italiano tulle, 22 x h 11,90 m.«The palace of Ulisse and Penelope is a groove of greyish parallelepipeds, a sort of narrow jail that imprisons the feelings of the queen and that a bit at a time flakes untils it disappears entirely at the end, where the love is found again and it will triumph in front of a free and without constraints horizon.»Nicola Salmoiraghi, in l'opera, No. 262/263.
A Rear-illuminated backdrop made of RNV - Nevada film, 22 x 12 m ...
... filtered through a backdrop made of grey BIT - Italiano tulle, 22 x h 11,90 m.
The floor of the stage is covered with TMP - Perotapis 99. black moquette.
The staging used around 1.000 m² of COS - Oscurante 13. grey molton.
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
Tragedy with happy ending in a prologue and three acts
Music
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Libretto
Giacomo Badoaro
First night
Venice, Teatro San Cassiano, 1640
Stage direction
Robert Wilson
Scenography
Serge von Arx
Costume design
Jacques Reynaud
Pictorial realizations
Paolino Libralato
Light design
A.J. Weissbard
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
2011

Video & Documentation

Paolino Libralato at work 1

Paolino Libralato at work 2

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BIT - Italiano

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: typologies of workmanships

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

Robert Wilson

Some Masters

TMP - Perotapis

Textile floors