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Teatro Comunale, ''The Magic Flute''

Bologna

The staging highlights some unusual elements.Papageno and the three child-spirits have smaller dimensions compared to the background ...
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... which is displayed on a large Rear-projection screen made with the film RNO - Notturno.And the rear projection is unnatural, because it highlights the chromatic split (red and cyan channels) ...
... typical of 3D projections performed with the anaglyph method.Furthermore, something strange happens on the periphery of the projection, which shows a moving and variable frame ...
... that tightens and widens with a polygonal contour.During the representation it is clarified that these are the blades of a giant optical diaphgram].But that's not all: like in the famous film by Ingmar Bergman from which the Ravenna-based theater company that created the show Fanny and Alexander takes its name ...
... the scene is observed from the outside as if it were a puppet theater.«The ouverture of the film by Bergman, at the center of which are the faces of the spectators listening in raptures, is animated with the cinematographic technique of the anaglyph, which highlights the role of active witness of each individual spectator.»All the quotes are taken from Director's notes by Luigi De AngelisTo be displayed properly, the anaglyph needs special corrective glasses, with which the viewer ...
... become part of the same world that children overlook:«We are contained in their gaze, they appear giants to us.They gave us special glasses, thanks to which we can almost touch them and feel them even closer, as if they wanted to involve each of us, one at a time, as if to show us that the story we are witnessing concerns us deeply.From the outside they open and close curtains, wings, diaphragms, constantly changing the stage space, following the trend of the music, placing fantastic, illusory objects inside.»
The background screen is bordered by four large 9TM - Frames for stagecraft in aluminum (two are trapezoidal and two are rectangular).The frames have been covered with red COS - Oscurante 18. cloth, which uses the plush and light-absorbing surface, which does not produce reflections even when subjected to a considerable luminous flux.The children:«... they used monochrome fabrics ...»
«... to build a stylized scenography and cut out figures, invent a fairy tale.Let's imagine that we are spectators and are contained in the hall of that theater, subscribers or patrons who want to see the opera.We are part of the same world that the two children overlook, from their Realm.»The scenography by Luigi De Angelis and Nicola Fagnani used a total of 38 backdrops made of COS - Oscurante cloth of various shapes and sizes, some of which were decidedly large.
The Magic Flute
Singspiel in two acts
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto
Emanuel Schikaneder
First night
Vienna, Theater auf der Wieden, 30/9/1791
Scenography,
light design
Luigi De Angelis
and Nicola Fagnani
Costume design
Chiara Lagani
Video design
Zapruder filmmakersgroup
Technical direction
Luca Gandini
Stage direction
Luigi De Angelis
Staging
Teatro Comunale of Bologna
Season
2015

Materials used in this production

9TM - Frames for scenography

Frames and tubes

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Rear-projection screens

Rear-projection screens

RNO - Notturno

Rear-projection films