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Description

Set design for Act 1 Scene V of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (the Phaecian ship is turned to stone), prepared by Alfred Siercke for the 1964 production by Hamburg State Opera

Source

Scanned and cropped from photograph in Neef, Sigrid (ed.): Opera: Composers, Works, Performers (English edition) Könemann, Cologne 1999 ISBN 3-8290-3571-3

Date

1964

Author

Photographer unknown

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(Reusing this file)

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Description

Set design for Act 1 Scene V of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (the Phaecian ship is turned to stone), prepared by Alfred Siercke in 1964 for a production by Hamburg State Opera

Source

Scanned and cropped from photograph in Neef, Sigrid (ed.): Opera: Composers, Works, Performers (English edition) Könemann, Cologne 1999 ISBN 3-8290-3571-3

Article

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Portion used

about 80 percent

Low resolution?

yes

Purpose of use

This scene, the transformation of the Phaecian ship into stone as an act of retribution by the god Neptune, is a dramatic and visual highlight of the opera. Readers of the article may well wonder how this could be depicted on stage; this image will help them understand this, and to realise the extent of imagination and ingenuity required to mount productions of this opera effectively

Replaceable?

Not replaceable. This production was designed 46 years ago, will not be staged again

Other information

The photographer's name is not given.

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PhaecianStoneShip.jpgtrue

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:51, 23 December 2017Thumbnail for version as of 06:51, 23 December 2017377 × 264 (27 KB)Theo's Little Bot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
21:19, 1 March 2010No thumbnail427 × 300 (177 KB)Elcobbola (talk | contribs)Reduce resolution per NFCC#3B

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