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Teatro Real, ''Don Quijote''

Madrid

Closed set made with three large backdrops with flat making made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin.The backdrops, which have been mounted on specially made frames ...
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... represent the manuscript of the masterpiece by Cervantes, and they seem to want to symbolically highlight its gigantic poetic dimension ...
... especially towards the tiny characters of this mass scene.

The background on which the enormous pages detach is constituted by a Stage masking made of COS - Oscurante molton.
Closed set made with three large backdrops with flat making made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin.The backdrops, which have been mounted on specially made frames ...
The manuscript in the foreground was also made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin, in times when digital prints for scenography were not yet rampant, and was mounted on a small Set piece.
Don Quijote
Lyric opera with prologue, six scenes and ending
Music
Cristóbal Halffter
Libretto
Andrés Amorós
from Miguel de Cervantes
First night
Madrid, Teatro Real, 23/2/2000
Scenography,
costume design,
stage direction
Herbert Wernicke
Technical direction
Manuel Fontanals
Staging
Teatro Real of Madrid
Season
1999 / 2000

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Herbert Wernicke

Some Masters

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