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Opéra de Nice, ''Adriana Lecouvreur''

Nice

With 17 strips of RNB - Nebbia, the set designer Nicolas Bovey created three translucent and extremely light-reactive walls.It is an interpretation of the Closed set ...
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... which symbolically recalls an eighteenth-century interior.«The 120 reflecting parables», Nicolas Bovey explains, «and the backdrops made of RNB - Nebbia, which is extremely sensitive to the variations of the lighting, were the tools that had been chosen to evoke the different degrees of the emotionalism of the protagonist in a society where ...»
«... the way according to which one is highlighted is the goal of the same life.The effect of the RNB - Nebbia fulfilled my expectations.Also used with not welded strips, it apparently gave a cold and antiseptic aspect to the space but that, just grazed by the light, revealed its semi-trasparency resulting very refined and evocative.The raw and bare space ...»
«... the way according to which one is highlighted is the goal of the same life.The effect of the RNB - Nebbia fulfilled my expectations.Also used with not welded strips, it apparently gave a cold and antiseptic aspect to the space but that, just grazed by the light, revealed its semi-trasparency resulting very refined and evocative.The raw and bare space ...»
«... is the allegory of a place in which the appearance is the existential condition of Adriana Lecouvreur.»
The Bacchanal, a painting by the great French rococo painter Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777), contemporary to the events of the protagonist of the opera, has been decomposed into five parts made of RNB - Nebbia digital printing.Here three wings, which are backlit with warm light, are visible and ...
... once they have descended to stage level they are used as a support for rear-projecting the magnified silhouettes of some dancers ...
... or to highlight with cooler light the painting.The wings alternate ...
Adriana Lecouvreur
Opera in four acts
Music
Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
Libretto
Arturo Colautti
from the comedy by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé
First night
Milan, Teatro Lirico, 6/11/1902
Scenography,
light design
Nicolas Bovey
Costume design
Alessio Rosati
Stage direction
Francesco Micheli
Staging
Opéra de Nice
Season
2014

Materials used in this production

Closed sets

Frames for stagecraft

Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrops

RNB - Nebbia

Rear-projection films

RNB - Nebbia digital printing

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