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Teatro alla Scala, ''Cinderella''

Milan

The curtain of the show is a backdrop made of ASC - Sceno muslin painted with a trompe-l'œil technique which reproduces, however, an unrealistic subject: a curtain which seems to come out of the illustrations of a fairy tale... by Perrault, to be precise.It is a kind of scenographic oxymoron: the illusion of three-dimensionality that imitates a two-dimensional subject, the page of a book.
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Even the scenes cite the black and white engravings used to illustrate fairy tales in past centuries, such as those by Gustave Doré.This was built with a Scenographic quadrature made of four perspective Portals ...
... that converge on a Backing flat where the perspective painting extends the view of the halls of the palace.The quadrature is made of ...

... unframed ASC - Sceno muslin painted by the Scenographic workshop of the Teatro alla Scala.
A second and third scene were built with painted wooden Set pieces ...
... always imitating the style of black and white engravings.The staging is part of the famous trilogy created by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle for the Teatro alla Scala which also included the Teatro alla Scala, ''The Barber of Seville'' (1969) and the Teatro alla Scala, ''L’italiana in Algeri'' (1973).
Cinderella
Comic drama in two acts
Music
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Libretto
Jacopo Ferretti from Charles Perrault
First night
Rome, Teatro Valle, 25/1/1817
Scenography,
costume design,
stage direction
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932-1988)
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
2001 and 2004 revivals of Teatro Alla Scala's 1973 staging

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

GGI - Siria

Gauzes

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