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Teatro alla Scala, ''Die tote Stadt''

Milan

A large semi-transparent Austrian curtain made of white HSE - Tempesta silk, here illuminated by blue light, totally divides the stage into two parts.It is the scenographic device that the stage designer Stuart Nunn has devised to visually and spatially discriminate, in the eyes of the audience ...
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... the real facts, that are represented in front of the curtain, from those that instead develop in the protagonist's mind.Thanks to the lightness of silk, despite its enormous size, the curtain weighs only 25 kg.These are its main data:
- dimensions 25.15 x h 12.5 m- horizontal fullness 100%- vertical fullness 70%- 33 lifting points- 32 drapery strips, each 81 cm wide.The diaphanousness of silk makes it possible ...

... to bring out the protagonist's memories and lucubrations on the curtain, as shown by the candles in the upper part, appropriately playing with the lighting.And with the backlight, below with the silhouettes.The shaped opening of the Austrian curtain ...
A large semi-transparent Austrian curtain made of white HSE - Tempesta silk, here illuminated by blue light, totally divides the stage into two parts.It is the scenographic device that the stage designer Stuart Nunn has devised to visually and spatially discriminate, in the eyes of the audience ...
... allows to open glimpses of the protagonist's subconscious, further layering the visual, scenographic and dramatic experience.Here, at the same time, one can see some objects in transparency, others against the light and a real scene appears too, which in any case remains confined, semantically, beyond the boundary line of reality.
Die tote Stadt
Lyric opera in three acts
Music
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, (1897-1957)
Libretto
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Paul Schott
First night
Hamburg, Hamburg State Opera, 4/12/1920
Scenography,
costume design
Stuart Nunn
Light design
Giuseppe Di Iorio
Coreography
Ron Howell
Stage direction
Graham Vick (1953-2021)
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
2019

Materials used in this production

3C - Canapa Rope

Ropes

Austrian curtains

Typology of curtain

FMB - Macbeth 400

Velvets

HSE - Tempesta

Silks and satins

WPL - Plomba

Fabric: finishings and accessories

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