Closed sets

Examples

Teatro del Canguro, ''Pinocchio'' A cliché claims that Closed set is a scenographic modality belonging to the past or to modest realizations, and this one so was in the budget, since ...

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... it was puppet theater intended for a children's audience.However, together with the following stagings, it demonstrates the persistent vitality of the scheme, at any level, as long as there is no lack of ideas for using it.

Teatro Petruzzelli, ''Traviata'' Closed set created with interchangeable Flats covered alternatively with:- ASC - Sceno digital printing muslin (in the photo);- FTA - Tancredi 500 digital printing velvet;- QSF - Miroflex mirror plates.

Teatro alla Scala, ''The Girl of the West'' The Closed set equipped with Ceiling with which the interior of Minnie's Log cabin was reproduced is photographed here in the Laboratorio scenografico del Teatro alla Scala at the end of its construction.It is an irregular parallelepiped with an artfully exaggerated perspective that ...

... once mounted on the stage, will be equipped with a fourth wall that will separate it from the hall.The public will be able to see the interior through a window with BGO - Gobelin tulle glasses, until the obstacle of the fourth wall ...

... will be eliminated.The Flats, the Ceiling and the Closed set floor were coated with the PBL - Blackout digital printing vinyl film.Here the film has replaced the ASC - Sceno muslin due to the scenic need to let the red liquid that represents the blood flow along the walls and to clean them after each performance.

Auditorio de Tenerife, ''Les contes d'Hoffmann'' Hemicyclic Closed set made with a backdrop and a Ceiling made of ASC - Sceno digital printing muslin.

Description of the Closed set in a French stagecraft text:«The Closed set looks like a normal room. The whole scenography is made of frames. This setup limits the staging.»From the Traité d'aménagement des salles de spectacles by Georges Leblanc and Jacques Lomont, Ets. Louis Leblanc, Paris, 1939.

The Closed set is an interior scene closed on three sides, a scheme that lends itself to infinite variations and to the use of countless materials and construction techniques.
It is normally built by means of Flats connected to each other in a continuous way.
It can be completed by a Ceiling.
One or more sides of the Closed set can be made of fabric or vinyl backdrops.
It can be equipped with a fourth variable transparency wall.

This material was used for...

Nationale Opera & Ballet, ''Animal Farm''

Lyric opera

Opéra Comédie, ''Orfeo ed Euridice''

Lyric opera

Teatro alla Scala, ''Der Rosenkavalier''

Lyric opera

Teatro alla Scala, ''Joan of Arc''

Lyric opera

Teatro alla Scala, ''The Girl of the West''

Lyric opera

Teatro de la Maestranza, ''Così fan tutte''

Lyric opera

Teatro de la Zarzuela, ''La Generala''

Operetta, zarzuela, musical

Teatro del Canguro, ''Pinocchio''

Theatre ''di figura''

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, ''Falstaff''

Lyric opera

Teatro dell'Opera, ''Andrea Chénier''

Lyric opera

Teatro della Pergola, ''Memoirs of Hadrian''

Prose theatre

Teatro della Pergola, ''The Father''

Prose theatre

Teatro Donizetti, ''Adelia''

Lyric opera

Teatro Donizetti, ''Don Pasquale''

Lyric opera

Teatro Petruzzelli, ''La traviata''

Lyric opera

Teatro Real, ''Don Quijote''

Lyric opera

Teatro Real, ''The magic flute''

Lyric opera

Teatro Regio di Torino, ''The Consul''

Lyric opera

Teatro Verdi di Pisa, ''Paride ed Elena''

Lyric opera

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