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Nationale Opera & Ballet, ''Animal Farm''

Amsterdam

Paolo Fantin's sketch for the slaughterhouse, the most famous in the history of literature, foresees a singular hyper-realistic Closed set.The scene is dominated by a gloomy metal structure, obviously also functional to Damiano Michieletto's direction, which philologically reproduces those that the slaughter industry uses to move the hoists on which the animal carcasses are hung.
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One of the working drawings drawn up during the work in progress with which the images depicting large slabs of polished marble were organised.It will be reproduced in digital print on one of the vinyl coverings of the mobile Flats that will make up the closed set.The films chosen are ...
... the PBL - Blackout digital printing, with which two framed borders will be coated which will have the following dimensions:14.4 x h 3.8 m13.4 x h 2.8 mwhile for the walls it will be used ...
... the PBO - Bianco Ottico digital printing film.The flats will have these dimensions:17.3 x h 4.5 m8.3 x h 4.7 m2.1 x h 4.7 m0.6 x h 4.7 mAnd here is the first of them ...
... in Amsterdam, mounted on the frame created by the scenography workshop of the Nationale Opera & Ballet, the Decoratelier Nationale Opera & Ballet.The quality of the work of selecting and processing the print files, as well as their reproduction on the vinyl film, is finally visible in its final version: the realism is the desired one.In the Decoratelier it is pre-assembled ...
... the entire scenography, including the hanging metal structure, and the props are checked, among which one can notice the large cages ...
... in which the animals will be locked up waiting to be slaughtered.Paolo Fantin is here examining for the first time the spatial effect of their inclusion on scene.In the meantime ...
... the amazing animal masks were prepared in the Decoratelier.Their light structure has been covered with a semi-transparent moldable mesh ...
Animal Farm
Opera in two acts, nine scenes and an epilogue
Music
Alexander Raskatov (1953)
Libretto
Ian Burton,
from the allegorical novel of the same name by George Orwell
First night
Amsterdam, Stopera, 3/3/2023
Scenography
Paolo Fantin
Costume design
Klaus Bruns
Light design
Alessandro Carletti
Technical direction
Bob Brandsen
Stage direction
Damiano Michieletto
Staging
Dutch National Opera
Co-production
De Nationale Opera
Wiener Staatsoper
Teatro Massimo (Palermo)
Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Helsinki)
Season
2023

Materials used in this production

Closed sets

Scene elements

Flats

Scene elements

PBL - Blackout digital printing

Printing on vinyl

PBO - Bianco Ottico digital printing

Printing on vinyl

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