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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, ''Swan Lake''

Florence

The stage is predisposed for the dance with the grey TSM - Silviagrips floor.A reflecting circular area in its center, realized with the TST - Silviastar mirror dance floor, symbolically represents the lake.
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A 7. light grey Tripolina string curtain, height 6,5 m, creates a hemicycle that follows the circular profile of the lake and is used as a surface for frontal projections.It is suspended to a semicircular structure ...
... while on the sides of the scene there are four wings made of black QLA - Laccato.The clouds represent one of the stages of physical transformation of the water: the vapour.
The back-lighing underlines the presence of the Rear-illuminated cyclorama realized with the film for rear-projections RAR - Arizona that closes the background of the scene.The descent on the scene of a second grey Tripolina string curtain ...
... completes a transparent wall that follows the whole round perimeter of the lake.It is a refined scenographical metaphor that alludes to a glass: that one with the water infected by the cholera that would have provoked the death of Tchaikovsky.
A black Tripolina string curtain goes down at times to cover the grey one, so allowing further variations the illumination of the scene.The hemicycles made of black and grey NTR - Tripolina receive the frontal projections coming both from the inside of the circle and from the back of the hall and, together with the Rear-illuminated cyclorama ...
... and the TST - Silviastar mirror floor, allow the scenography to play with a multiplicity of layers for projection, rear-projection and reflection, that is used for the visual illustration of the physical transformations of the water, and as a consequence ...
... those of the human personality, that constitute the metaphoric filter through which this interpretation of the masterpiece Tchaikovsky is here proposed.
Swan Lake
Ballet in a prologue and three acts
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Libretto
Vladimir Petrovich Begichev
Choreography
Paul Chalmer
First night
Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, 20/2/1877
Scenography,
technical direction
Italo Grassi
Costume design
Giulia Bonaldi
Light design
Valerio Tiberi
Visual design
Sergio Metalli
Staging
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino of Florence
Season
2011

Materials used in this production

NTR - Tripolina

Materials for string curtains

QNS - Bianca

Decorative materials

RAR - Arizona

Rear-projection films

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

Tripolina string curtains

Projection / transparency backdrops

TSM - Silviagrips

Dance floors

VSI - Silvia Tape

Adhesive tapes

VSL - Silvialux Tape

Adhesive tapes

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