Stage Directions: To celebrate the 200th birthday of Wagner, Verdi and the Bavarian State Opera (all taking place in 2013), the Opera staged a showdown between the two famous composers. The composers were represented by two 31-foot-tall, internally-lit marionettes in the plaza outside the Bavarian State Opera House, with actors faces projected onto the puppets’ faces. Benedikt Zehm, master electrician at the Bavarian State Opera was lighting designer for the show, and Tina Emmerich sat at the lighting control desk. Michael Bauer, head of lighting at the Staatsoper in Munich, chose to use an ETC Gio console to control the mixed rig, which included 14 Mac 2000s, 21 LED spotlights by JB Lighting, and ten GLP Impression 120s, via three wireless DMX transmitters.
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So this doesn't have anything to do with Lights but some fun facts about Wagner from Musical Theory:
1. He was a bad Nazi: extremely racist and very antisemitic. They don't play his music in Israel.
2. He wrote the longest Operas ever. His Opera "The Ring" takes 15 hours to perform.
3. His music involves a lot of use of use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Leitmotifs are extremely popular today in Film Music - especially that of John Williams and Hans Zimmer.
Si cool to see such a modern marriage of opera, puppetry and installation art. Very interesting that in celebration of the birthday, they chose such a modern and unorthodox presentation of opera. Large-scale puppetry is so enthralling, I definitely want to see more of it.
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