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Teatro alla Scala, ''The Italian Girl in Algiers''

Milan

A fixed Closed set with a trapezoidal plan represents the courtyard of an Arab palace rather than an interior.The Portal with its large trilobed arch opens onto a Rear-illuminated cyclorama made of RNV - Nevada, also visible from the large four-lobed oculus of the Ceiling.The rear-projected disk of the sun ...
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... becomes the moon in a night scene, where the background will change its colour.A Set piece depicts an arabesque-style palace, whose fairy-tale aura is reflected in the style of the entire staging, from the Ground rows with rocks and towers of the previous image ...
... to this backdrop made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin with a fortified Algiers teeming with minarets that stand out against the Mediterranean Sea ...

... which here becomes closer with the arrival of a tartan with a sail made of white ASC - Sceno muslin.Jean-PierrePonnelle's masterful and timeless staging, brilliant even in its simplicity, has been periodically represented by the Scala for half a century, always with identical success ...
... and has been performed by many of the world's great theaters, including the Met in New York.The backlit background acts as a counterlight for the arabesque grid of the window grills ...
... or is filtered by the white HSE - Tempesta silk curtains that veil the central arch and the six trefoil windows.
Comic drama in two acts
Music
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
First night
Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, 22/5/1813

Scenography,
costume design,
stage direction

Staging
Season
2002 / 2003
revival of the staging by Teatro Alla Scala in 1973

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

GGI - Siria

Gauzes

HSE - Tempesta

Silks and satins

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

Information on data processing