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Teatro alla Scala, ''A Homage to Picasso''

Milan

The maquette by Beni Montresor foresees a Closed set with a trapezoidal plan, made of ZSK - Ultralight Mirrors mirrored walls, which closes on a backdrop made of ASC - Sceno muslin.The silhouettes of images taken from Picasso's works that created the iconography of the 20th century will be reproduced in large dimensions on Set pieces ...
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... that will enter the scene from above.The backdrop made of white ASC - Sceno muslin will be frontally illuminated with different intensities and colour changes, acting as a background to the hanging silhouettes and reflecting in the ZSK - Ultralight Mirrors of the side walls.Actually Montresor changed his mind, and ...
... in the scenography actually set up, the side mirrors were replaced by large backdrops made of white ASC - Sceno muslin, hung in a deliberately négligé way, which were used as a reflective surface for the front lighting ...
... or as a slightly transparent first layer to be used with rear-illumination.In front of the muslin, a second layer of variable transparency fabric, made of BGO - Gobelin tulle, was stretched on frames ...
... built in an apparently rough way.Various Set pieces covered with painted muslin or tulle were put on stage, in this case the three shaped backdrops in BGO - Gobelin tulle visible above, which stylize some peltate leaves ...
... and here some rectangular frames with BGO - Gobelin tulle, which act as a translucent screen for the figures of the Don Quijote characters in one of their Picassian representations.The silhouettes are projected against the light first on the muslin background ...
... and then they advance towards the center of the stage, while the scene is illuminated in a more suffused way and with various colours.Quotes from Picasso's works ...
... painted on framed muslin and tulle take turns on the scene ...
A Homage to Picasso
Ballet in two acts and four parts
Choreography
Paolo Bortoluzzi (1938-1993)
Music
Paul Hindemith
Gyorgy Ligeti
Iannis Xenakis
Ragnar Grippe
First night
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1977
Scenography,
costume design,
light design,
stage direction
Beni Montresor (1926-2001)
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
1977

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BGO - Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

Closed sets

Scene elements

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Flats

Scene elements

Set pieces

Scene elements

ZSK - Ultralight Mirror

Mirror / transparent backdrops

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