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Teatro Verdi, ''Don Quichotte''

Trieste

Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza are celebrated by a throwing of confetti.Behind there his a big backdrop manufactured with the film RTE - Temporale, here with a dégradé rear-illumination. Federico Tiezzi transferred to his mise-en-scène the styles' contamination that characterizes his directions, with quotations that in this case go from Goya and Velasquez up to the Ninteenth Century of Picasso and the silent cinema.
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In duet with Dulcinée and with a lute in the hand, Don Quichotte is prepared to the serenade.Wings and tops were realized with the film RTE - Temporale too, stretched on Wooden frames covered with white CGO - Gobbi fabric, used here for functional purposes.The wings are frontally illuminated here with yellow light, while the backdrop is submitted to a neutral rear-illumination that underlines the natural color of the film RTE - Temporale.
The yellow illumination was extended here to the backdrop RTE - Temporale.The floor of the stage is covered with the mirror dance floor TST - Silviastar.

The battle with the windmills, made with games of chromatic rear-illumination and shades on the backdrop RTE - Temporale.The scenography by Pier Paolo Bisleri uses few essential elements and colours with a dry elegance, in a show very appreciated by the public and that the critics that, praising it, defined it post-modern and minimal.
Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza are celebrated by a throwing of confetti.Behind there his a big backdrop manufactured with the film RTE - Temporale, here with a dégradé rear-illumination. Federico Tiezzi transferred to his mise-en-scène the styles' contamination that characterizes his directions, with quotations that in this case go from Goya and Velasquez up to the Ninteenth Century of Picasso and the silent cinema.
Don Quichotte, refused by Dulcinée, dies between the arms of Sancho, to which he gives the island that he promised to him: the Island of the Dreams.The picture shows a change of the chromatic illumination on the side wings covered with RTE - Temporale, while a rear-projection on the RTE - Temporale backdrop can bee seen through the upper windows of the brick wall that was realized with a wooden scene.
Don Quichotte
Comédie héroique in five acts
Music
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Libretto
Henri Cain
from the homonym comedy by Jacques le Lorrain and from Miguel de Cervantes
First night
Opéra de Monte Carlo, 19/2/1910
Scenography
Pier Paolo Bisleri
Costume design
Giovanna Buzzi
Light design
Iuraj Saleri
Scenographic
workshop direction
Giampiero Ferlan (1948-2014)
Choreography
Virgilio Sieni
Stage direction
Federico Tiezzi
Staging
Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste
Season
2005 / 2006

Materials used in this production

BGO - Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

CGO - Gobbi

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

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