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Auditorio de Tenerife, ''Les contes d'Hoffmann''

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The scene uses a large ATS - Toscana canvas floor painted with red and white triangles converging in the center, a reference to the covering of a circus tent.Within which, in fact, the director Raúl Vázquez transposed the action ...
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... completing the setting by means of a backdrop and a Ceiling made of ASC - Sceno digital printing muslin, which create a Closed set with a hemicyclic plan .In the background, the artists' entrance consists of the gigantic mouth of a clown ...
... here veiled with a white Tripolina string curtain and subsequently closed ...

... by a curtain made of red COS - Oscurante molton.The unusual setting in a circus is due to the director's desire to make Offenbach's opera accessible to an audience of children without affecting its depth.The scenography made a decisive contribution to the success of an attempt that was not at all simple ...
... and that was developed by the director himself with Jorge Cabrera Ortiz, who obtained a staging which set the action «... in a world in danger, full of magicians, tightrope walkers, jugglers, clowns and countless characters who bring to life this show within a show.The fantasy of the circus in the magic of opera ...»
«... told through the astonishing music by Jacques Offenbach.Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.Welcome to the most special circus in the world.Take a seat and get ready to have fun.The show is about to begin at Hoffmann Circus!»From the director's notes by Raúl Vázquez.
The Tales of Hoffmann
Opéra-fantastique in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue
Music
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Libretto
Jules Barbier
from Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
First night
Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, 10/2/1881
First night
Opéra-Comique, 10/2/1881
Scenography
Raúl Vázquez,
Jorge Cabrera Ortiz
Costume design
Leo Martínez
Light design
Miguel Ponce
Scenographic workshop
Dpto. Maquinaria y Atrezzo del Auditorio de Tenerife
Technical direction
Jorge Cabrera Ortiz
Stage direction
Raúl Vázquez
Staging
Auditorio de Tenerife of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Season
2017

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno digital printing

Printing on fabrics

ATS - Toscana

Muslin and canvas

BSU - Super Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

NTR - Tripolina

Materials for string curtains

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