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Ground rows

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Teatro Real, ''L'Orfeo'' The cloud that accompanies the descent from heaven of Apollo is represented with a painted and framed Ground row made of ASC - Sceno muslin, which also includes the chariot of Apollo itself.In front of the cloud, another smaller Ground row reproduces a relief of the ground.
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Teatro Carlo Felice, ''Werther'' During a change of scene with the curtain open, while the stage is backlit by a RTE - Temporale screen, a BGO - Gobelin tulle is raised and a group of cheering boys enters the field.The two wheeled Ground rows which slide onto the stage from the wings ...
... are made of painted and framed ASC - Sceno muslin.Their contoured profile and painted foliage reproduce those of other hedges which, always painted on ASC - Sceno muslin, will be sewn along the lower part of the composite backdrop made of BGO - Gobelin tulle painted with the clouds that will be lowered immediately afterwards to act as a background to the scene.
Opéra national de Lorraine, ''Candide'' The scene element at the bottom right with the inscription ''Gulf of Mexico'' ...
... which has changed here its position and is further to the left, is a wheeled and framed Ground row made of ASC - Sceno digital printing muslin.
Teatro Filarmonico, ''The Magic Flute'' The silhouettes of the donkey, the elephant and the camels in the foreground are Ground rows covered in painted ASC - Sceno muslin.And also those of the other animals at the top of the steps, in reality a two-dimensional framed backdrop made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin.
Teatro Carlo Felice, ''The Magic Flute'' Closed set made with Flats in painted ASC - Sceno muslin and Ceilings also in ASC - Sceno muslin.In the centre, some wheeled Ground rows made with the same technique depict what appear to be the rocks of a seabed.Emanuele Luzzati has also designed ...
... for this other scene, a wheeled Ground row in which the crown of the sun with the signs of the zodiac is the background to a niche that bears the esoteric symbol of the intertwined double triangle.The Ground row is covered with painted ASC - Sceno muslin and is completed by two Set pieces depicting lions.
The Ground rows are scenic elements of reduced height, placed on the level of the stage in front of the background, which have the task of raising the horizon line or of hiding from the view of the audience some service equipment placed on the ground, usually lighting equipments.
They are framed or built and can be wheeled.
Their profile is generally shaped.

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Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa: ''Werther'' by Beni Montresor

Teatro Filarmonico, ''The Magic Flute''

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Opéra national de Lorraine, ''Candide''

Operetta, zarzuela, musical

Teatro Carlo Felice, ''The Magic Flute''

Lyric opera

Teatro Carlo Felice, ''Werther''

Lyric opera

Teatro Filarmonico, ''The Magic Flute''

Lyric opera

Teatro Real, ''L'Orfeo''

Lyric opera

Tulsa Ballet, ''Alice in Wonderland''

Dance

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