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Teatro alla Scala, ''Pelléas et Mélisande''

Milan

The black TIL - Iris Lucido glossy floor covers the stage almost to the proscenium.A Rear-projection screen made of RNO - Notturno, here partially masked by a reinforced backdrop covered with the black COS - Oscurante molton, illuminates the background of the scene ...
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... or it exhibits several backgrounds, including this one with the stormy sea.The screen is often filtered by a grid against the light, visible here ...
... while it is entering the scene from the sides.It is a system created by the scenographic workshop of the Teatro alla Scala which uses a series of black fabric bands, 30 cm wide, which can rotate on their vertical axis ...
... by varying their opening and the visibility of the backdrop behind them.It is a gigantic and scenographic version of the vertical band curtains normally used in offices and homes, the lower sides of the bands are in fact connected to each other by two spacer chains.
While the rear-projected background on the RNO - Notturno screen changes continuously, supporting the narration and the music, a large sculpture emerges from the ground ...
... which gradually reveals itself to be the head of a woman who, going up ...
... becomes a half bust and, by rotating on itself by 90°, highlights its function.It is, in fact, the fountain, one of the places where the action takes place.
The fountain was made of polystyrene and covered in plaster, reinforced with the special cotton gauze GGI - Siria.The vertical bands grid alternates ...
Pelléas et Mélisande
Opera in five acts and twelve scenes
Music
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Libretto
Maurice Maeterlinck
First night
Paris, Opéra-Comique, 2/4/1908
Scenography
Pierre Médecin
Emmanuelle Favre
Costume design
Marie-Louise Walek
Stage direction
Pierre Médecin
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
2005 / 2006

Materials used in this production

3P - PLP String

Ropes

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

GGI - Siria

Gauzes

Rear-projection screens

Rear-projection screens

RNO - Notturno

Rear-projection films

TIL - Iris Lucido

Vinyl floors

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