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Teatro Verdi, ''Elektra''

Trieste

The cascade of incandescent magma that invades the stalls from the portal is reproduced with a Kabuki curtain made of black-silver HLU - Lucilla.Made with flat making, the curtain measures 17.8 x h 14 m, and set designer Benito Leonori hung it from a release bar, matching the eyelets ...
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... to give it the vertical fullness necessary to allow the fans placed on the stage to animate its surface.The lighting by Alessandro Carletti paint the fabric with a gold reminiscent of the Mycenaean funerary mask of Agamemnon ...
... of which the curtain could be considered a surprising and cyclopean representation, stylized and animated, which here begins to fall ...
... as can be seen in this video taken during rehearsals, thus revealing a stage set ...
... without a fourth wall, in which director Marco Filiberti has arranged the orchestra on the stage, in an imposing baroque hall prepared with a Portal and several Flats decorated with artfully worn stucco moldings and crowns.The portal also serves as a support ...
... for the projections created by video designer Emanuele Burrafato.The stage extends toward the stalls, where the first rows of seats have been removed ...
... also by means of two lateral stairways, which contribute to the solemn and monumental feel of the installation, and which envelop the steaming pool ...
... where the assassination of Agamemnon takes place in flashback.At the end, the impression remains that the golden curtain was the scenic prelude to an opera that is unconventionally devoid of a musical one and that, transcending its initial aesthetic and introductory function ...
Elektra
One-act opera
Music
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Libretto

Hugo von Hofmannsthal
from Electra by Sophocles
First night
Königliches Opernhaus of Dresden, 25/1/1909
Scenography
Benito Leonori
Costume design
Daniele Gelsi
Light design
Alessandro Carletti
Video design
Mario Spinaci
Technical direction
Ivano Coviello
Choreography
Emanuele Burrafato
Stage direction
Marco Filiberti
Staging
Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste
Season
2026

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Teatro Verdi di Trieste, ''Elektra''

Materials used in this production

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

HLU - Lucilla

Metallic aspect fabrics

Kabuki curtains

Typology of curtain

Stage maskings

Acoustic curtains

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