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Teatro de la Maestranza, ''Così fan tutte''

Seville

The sketch of the set designer Emanuele Sinisi displays a silver curtain with vertical fullness.It is planned to be made with a light fabric, with reflection and translucency characteristics to be dynamically alternated by means of a suitably designed lighting system.The triangular plan Closed set ...
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... is dominated by a Ceiling in which a large oculus opens up.In semi-transparency through the curtain, to illuminate the central part with fuchsia light, the superimposed astronomical symbols of Venus and Mars stand out.A stagehand has just finished installing the curtain ...
... on the stage of the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville of the curtain made according to the instructions by Emanuele Sinisi.In detail, it is a Traveller curtain 15 x h 8 m made of 52. silver HLU - Lucilla with 80% vertical fullness.The audience awaits the start of the performance ...
... and a low blue light illuminates the proscenium and the outline of the Traveller curtain made of silver HLU - Lucilla, while the center of the curtain reflects the light of the hall.The stage lights are turned off behind the curtain, which therefore totally fulfills its function as an optical separation between the hall and the stage, despite the translucency of the fabric.
Transparency test during the lighting rehearsals.The lighting designer Albert Faura is mixing a grazing lighting on the curtain, which highlights the vertical lines projecting towards the proscenium, with the lighting of the scene behind, where the male and female symbol, made with LED strips, stands out for its power.
The proscenium with the singers in full light.The HLU - Lucilla curtain is illuminated in its peripheral parts, where its silver aspect is highlighted.Its central area and the scene behind it are instead kept in the dark in order to send ...
... the purple symbol against the light, which is here given the maximum prominence to the point that it seems to pierce the fabric.The lighting of the proscenium ...
... is also extended to the center of the curtain and it is used to paint it with a slightly golden tone, while the genre symbol has been turned off.The grazing light increases the three-dimensionality of the drapery thanks to the strong contrast between the more hollow and dark vertical lines and the more external and reflective ones.
Thus Do They All
Opera buffa in two acts
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte
First night
Vienna, Burgtheater, 26/1/1790
Scenography
Emanuele Sinisi
Costume design
Rafael R. Villalobos
Lighting design
Albert Faura (A.A.I.)
Scenographic workshop
Opera Set, Florence
Technical direction
Antonio Moreno
Stage direction
Rafael R. Villalobos
Staging
Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville
Season
2020 / 2021

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

Ceilings

Frames for stagecraft

Closed sets

Frames for stagecraft

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

HLU - Lucilla

Metallic aspect fabrics

Traveller curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

WLA - Tie

Fabric: finishings and accessories

WPL - Plomba

Fabric: finishings and accessories

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