How a production is built from the ground up — set, light, costume, direction — and the choices that determine whether it serves or fights the score.
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The dominant mode of European opera production is also the most argued about. Here is what it can actually do.
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The lighting design for a production runs to hundreds of cues timed to the bar. It shapes what you believe about every scene. Almost nobody talks about it.
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The clothes are not decorative. They are a physical argument about what a singer can and cannot do.