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Il Tabarro

Costume Design
1965 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Costume design by Michael Annals for two down and outs in Giacomo Puccini's opera, Il Tabarro, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1965.

Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.



Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleIl Tabarro (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, ink, pencil, crayon and chalk on paper
Brief description
Costume design by Michael Annals for two down and outs in Giacomo Puccini's opera, Il Tabarro, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1965
Physical description
Costume design for two down and outs in Il Tabarro. Two full length male figures in shabby grey clothes, both wearing long grey coats, the barefoot right hand figure in a black hat puts his arm round his companion's shoulders. Annotated by the artist with the opera title, the theatre, and the characters, in ink. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 39.2cm
  • Width: 28cm
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Annals
Summary
Costume design by Michael Annals for two down and outs in Giacomo Puccini's opera, Il Tabarro, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1965.

Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.

Collection
Accession number
S.341-1991

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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