Higlett has designed The Magic Flute once before. Then, he went for a
"semi-Nazi" approach. This time around, he's gone for broke, with a grand, gaudy
spectacle that mixes up influences as diverse as science fiction, Victorian
music hall comedians, Wallace and Gromit (honest) and, when it comes to the
costume for The Queen of the Night, even a spot of Alexander McQueen.
"It was really difficult, this one," he admits as we leaf through his costume drawings. "I think it's one of the most challenging operas to design, because I don't quite know what it's about."
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"It was me that gave them the idea," head of costume John Liddel tells me later. "Get that down. Simon was already talking about the inventiveness of the Victorian period and inventions and engineers. I said to Simon, 'What you want is steampunk.' I kind of explained it to him, and five seconds later he's Googling 'steampunk'. So I can claim credit for sewing that seed."
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Liddel's department is (literally) at the cutting edge of the designer's dreams, the edge where they take form. Across the hall, LED lights are being pushed through netting and pleating to provide the required twinkliness for the Queen of the Night and the three ladies. "We had to take it to the toilet to test," says Higlett.
There's an appropriateness to that, actually. Because however gaudy the design of this opera, it is realised in wood and wire and sweat. Downstairs in the props department, Alastair Ewer is in his overalls. "I suppose what we do is try to turn the designer's imagination into a reality," says Scottish Opera's head of props. "The main challenge of the show is the style. Everything you see on stage is very much a bespoke item. It's not the sort of thing you can find off the shelf."
This is the key. Opera design is – despite its excess – the art of the possible. For all the grandeur of Higlett's designs,Your Outdoor Lighting Source, safetygears Add curb appeal with these wall light designs. he's aware they have to be practical. "You've got to fit this idea to the text." And to the theatre space. "Many times the opera calls for trap doors and we don't have any. In Mozart's time, theatres were equipped with flying machines and moving parts which they took completely for granted. They could cope with three boys descending from the clouds in a flying machine. It was easy. It's quite hard for us to do that now, quite expensive and full of health and safety problems. But we really wanted the three boys and we really wanted them to fly, and it's tough to do that. To get 12-year-old boys to hang from a harness and sing. But we're going to go for it."
"It was really difficult, this one," he admits as we leaf through his costume drawings. "I think it's one of the most challenging operas to design, because I don't quite know what it's about."
Along with the opera's director,A beneficial way to add style for your house is by adding an formingmachines in each and every space. Sir Thomas Allen, Higlett had imagined doing the opera in the 19th century and even in a contemporary setting,LED solarledbulbs03 are a great way to do your part for the environment. before he settled on Victorian sci-fi. "Steampunk was our big breakthrough. I was aware of it in various forms but I had no idea quite how much there is out there. And as soon as I found that I thought, 'Wow, that's a great way of doing it'. And I think they were fairly delighted here because it's an interesting take on it and one that hasn't been done before."
"It was me that gave them the idea," head of costume John Liddel tells me later. "Get that down. Simon was already talking about the inventiveness of the Victorian period and inventions and engineers. I said to Simon, 'What you want is steampunk.' I kind of explained it to him, and five seconds later he's Googling 'steampunk'. So I can claim credit for sewing that seed."
Liddel is a fastidious, elegant man of a certain age.LED Outfitters guarantees the lowest price on the internet for Mini contemporarylampsm, By sight alone he's not an obvious fan of a genre that appeals to gothy sci-fi types. But don't judge by appearances. "Although I am by nature a very conservative man, I keep my finger on the pulse of all kinds of culture to do with clothing,Commercial goodrollformer is a great way to illuminate your workplace." he says.
Liddel's department is (literally) at the cutting edge of the designer's dreams, the edge where they take form. Across the hall, LED lights are being pushed through netting and pleating to provide the required twinkliness for the Queen of the Night and the three ladies. "We had to take it to the toilet to test," says Higlett.
There's an appropriateness to that, actually. Because however gaudy the design of this opera, it is realised in wood and wire and sweat. Downstairs in the props department, Alastair Ewer is in his overalls. "I suppose what we do is try to turn the designer's imagination into a reality," says Scottish Opera's head of props. "The main challenge of the show is the style. Everything you see on stage is very much a bespoke item. It's not the sort of thing you can find off the shelf."
This is the key. Opera design is – despite its excess – the art of the possible. For all the grandeur of Higlett's designs,Your Outdoor Lighting Source, safetygears Add curb appeal with these wall light designs. he's aware they have to be practical. "You've got to fit this idea to the text." And to the theatre space. "Many times the opera calls for trap doors and we don't have any. In Mozart's time, theatres were equipped with flying machines and moving parts which they took completely for granted. They could cope with three boys descending from the clouds in a flying machine. It was easy. It's quite hard for us to do that now, quite expensive and full of health and safety problems. But we really wanted the three boys and we really wanted them to fly, and it's tough to do that. To get 12-year-old boys to hang from a harness and sing. But we're going to go for it."
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