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Teatro Carlo Felice, ''Pagliacci''

Genoa

A Tripolina string curtain 02. beige, 20 x h 12 m ...
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... is projected frontally.At first the set design is traditional, but then the stage turns into a film set for chroma key shooting ...
... when two large backdrops made of green ATR - Sceno Poly Chroma fabric are lowered on the scene, of which the largest measured 24 x h 12 m and the second 20 x h 10 m ...
... while the green TCA - Capriccio Chroma floor was used to cover the stage floor.In what was the first theater production in Europe to use Augmented reality, director and set designer Christian Taraborrelli filmed the characters on stage projecting them in real time ...
... on a screen placed above the Chroma key backdrop and replacing the real green background with virtual ones, thus offering the viewer an ''augmented reality'' experience.Here the shot is about the character in the center ...
... and here the one on the left with a closer shot.Realistic backgrounds, in this case a forest, alternated with the film editing technique with mental visions and fantasies of the characters or with their subjective views.«The challenge is to narrate the opera ...»
«... through a new language», explained Cristian Taraborrelli «which, starting from the action in the theater and the realization in live video, leads to a form of cinematographic experimentation capable, in turn, of adding truth ...»
«... with the subjective narration of the characters exploded on video thanks to 2D and 3-D augmented reality, recomposed and brought together in real time on the scene.»
Opera in two acts with a prologue
Music
Libretto
Ruggero Leoncavallo
First night
Milan, Teatro Dal Verme, 21/5/1892

Scenography,
light design,
stage direction
Cristian Taraborrelli
Costume design
Angela Buscemi
Video projections
Luca Attilii
Technical direction
Luciano Novelli

Staging
Season
2021/2022

Materials used in this production

ATR - Sceno Poly Chroma

Chroma Key

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Frontal projection screens

Frontal projection screens

NTR - Tripolina

Materials for string curtains

PBO - Bianco Ottico

Frontal projection films

TCA - Capriccio Chroma

Chroma Key

Tripolina string curtains

Projection / transparency backdrops

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