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Teatro alla Scala, ''Tosca''

Milan

A famous scenography that reproduces in reverse, but with equal virtuosity, the intentions of the Baroque quadraturist painters.If their frescoes made flat surfaces illusorily three-dimensional, the stage designer Margherita Palli does the opposite: she reconstructs the depth of reality by taking it from the two dimensions of the quadrature.
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The execution, which masterfully supports the scenographic concept, is the work of the craftsmen of the Scenographical sorkshop of Teatro alla Scala, who reconstructed the architectural elements and Baroque ornaments with various scenographic techniques.The parts that reproduce the frescoes were made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin ...
... while the three-dimensional elements that imitate marble and stucco, already amazing for the accentuated and contrasting perspective lines, are also admirable for the accuracy and mastery of the scenographic execution, which made extensive use of GGI - Siria gauze to consolidate their surfaces before the paint finish.The effect of the contrast between the design and executive expertise and the imbalance of the architectural distortions of the result ...
... is completely jarring and is, namely, the one pursued by the direction of Luca Ronconi.In this scene, the effect is underlined by the desolation obtained with the greenish gray dégradé of the Rear-illuminated backdrop made of RAR - Arizona, which contributes:«... to restore the sense of disaster that was the anticlerical interpretative key of the opera.»Anna Maria Monteverdi.
Tosca
Melodrama in three acts
Music
Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924)
Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa
Luigi Illica
from the homonym play by Victorien Sardou
First night
Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14/1/1900
Scenography
Margherita Palli
Costume design
Vera Marzot (1931-2012)
Light design
Gianni Mantovanini
Stage direction
Luca Ronconi (1933-2015)
Staging
Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Season
1997

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

GGI - Siria

Gauzes

RAR - Arizona

Rear-projection films

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

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