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Teatro Real, ''Samson et Dalilah''

Madrid

In the picture, the staging by Teatro Real of Madrid, during the opera season 1999.The Rear-illuminated backdrop was made of RTE - Temporale film.The walls on the sides of the scene are made of panels coated with the silver QSF - Miroflex mirror film.
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The risers of the steps are made of silver QSF - Miroflex.The floor of the stage is covered with grey and black TSM - Silviagrips dance floor.The columns, made of polystyrene, were covered with QSP - Mirofilm.The first installation of the Samson ...
... was realized in the Years ‘80 at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago of Chile, while this picture and the following had been taken instead at Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.

Samson is preparing to make collapse the temple, with a coup de théâtre among the most famous of Beni Montresor's shows.«Montresor narrates in his autobiography the realization - prodigious for the local technical possibilities - of these scenes, that will make of the Teatro Municipal of Santiago the first Latin American theater ...»
In the picture, the staging by Teatro Real of Madrid, during the opera season 1999.The Rear-illuminated backdrop was made of RTE - Temporale film.The walls on the sides of the scene are made of panels coated with the silver QSF - Miroflex mirror film.
«... exporter of shows on a world range.The end, particularly effective, in which the colossal columns of the temple of Dagon were seen to fall from the background of the stage almost until orchestra pit, with inevitable sensation of the public.»Gaetano Miglioranzi, From the Colour to the Light, Titivillus Publisher, 2004, pag. 128.
Samson and Delilah
Opera in three acts and four scenes
Music
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Libretto
Ferdinand Lemaire
First night
Weimar, Grand-ducal Theatre, 2/12/1877
Scenography,
costume design,
light design,
stage direction
Beni Montresor (1926-2001)
Technical direction
Manuel Fontanals
Staging
Teatro Real of Madrid
The opera by Camille Saint-Saëns was brought on the stage several times by Beni Montresor (in Houston, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Santiago of Chile, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon).
The photos refer to the productions of the Teatro Real of Madrid, season 1998 / 1999, and of Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, season 1997.

Materials used in this production

Beni Montresor

Some Masters

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

QSF - Miroflex

Mirroring materials

QSP - Mirofilm

Mirroring materials

RTE - Temporale

Rear-projection films

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