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Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ''Otello''

Rovigo (Italy)

The central element of the installation is a Kabuki curtain with considerable dimensions (around 15 m of width for a height of 8,5 m) manufactured with HSE - Tempesta silk.The image of the Lion of San Marco, realized in Digital printing reproducing the sketch of the scenographer, fills up the whole backdrop.The dimensions of the Venetian emblem are hardly contained by the frame of the scene, creating a feeling of incumbent threat that will be used for functional goals by the stage direction.
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The big Kabuki curtain was suspended to the Flyloft of the Teatro Sociale, during the initial phases of installation of the scenography, to try its fall.The photo gathers the instant of the unhook of the curtain, signalled by the sudden ripple that crosses it.
The choice of the HSE - Tempesta silk is also due certainly to the desire to exploit the effects of lightness and transparency of this fabric.
The Kabuki curtain begins to fall creating one of the most classical and exciting coups de théâtre.
In these photos, that take back a preliminary test of the installation, it is not possible to appreciate the effects of illumination and transparency of the HSE - Tempesta silk, that will surely be used during the show.
The choice of HSE - Tempesta silk in the realization of the curtain is, as it was said, certainly due also to the intention to exploit the characteristic perpetual motion ...
... that makes unmistakable the scenographical effect, due to the impalpable lightness of the fabric, that ripples and fluctuates to every least motion of air.
If the effects of the illumination on the stage haven't been set yet ...
Lyric drama in four acts
Music
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
First night
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 5/2/1887

Scenography
Gabbris Ferrari
Stagecraft
Marcello Morresi
Coordination of the stage installations
Claudio Magrin
Stage direction

Staging
Teatro Sociale of Rovigo
Co-production with
Nuovo Teatro Comunale of Bolzano
C.S.C. Santa Chiara of Trento
Teatro Coccia of Novara
Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni
Coro Lirico Città di Rimini ''Amintore Galli''
Teatro Goldoni of Livorno
Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa of Savona
Season
2006 / 2007

Materials used in this production

HSE - Tempesta

Silks and satins

Kabuki curtains

Typology of curtain

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