Catalogue
English

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

Milan

The painter Paolino Libralato, here in the middle of the photo, painted a backdrop made of ASC1220S - Sceno 1.200 cm muslin, 22 x 12 m.The painting reproduces and revises in a gigantic size ...
View all
... the famous painting Le Printemps by Nicolas Poussin, preserved today at the Louvre in Paris.The scene is crossed by some symbolic presences: a turtle ...
... an elderly man and a child (the man's ages), a white rabbit, a gigantic champagne glass, while some red apples slowly fall from the tree.
In other scenes, a Rear-illuminated backdrop made of RNV - Nevada film, 22 x h 12 m ...
... is filtered through a backdrop made of grey BIT - Italiano tulle, 22 x h 11,90 m.
The staging also used a thousand m² of COS - Oscurante 13. grey molton.«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 ...»
«... until it disappears entirely at the end ...»
Tragedy with happy ending in a prologue and three acts
Music
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
First night
Venice, Teatro San Cassiano, 1640

Stage direction
Scenography
Serge von Arx
Costume design
Jacques Reynaud
Pictorial realizations
Paolino Libralato
Light design
A.J. Weissbard

Staging
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: tailoring types

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

Robert Wilson

Some Masters

TMP - Perotapis

Textile floors

Information on data processing