Set Design
1920 (made)
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This design, which acts as a storyboard showing the characters in their setting, depicts Act I Scene ii of the opera The Queen of Spades in which the young girl, Liza, plays the spinet and sings with her friend Pauline. The blue curtains are deliberately left open revealing the tall windows.
Designer Alexandre Benois had a long involvement with productions of The Queen of Spades which he admired when he first saw its original production in 1890. He had assisted with the decor for the 1903 production at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, and was co-producer, with Emile Cooper, as well as designer of sets and costumes for the production at the State Theatre for Opera and Ballet, Petrograd, on 3 May 1921. The opera, in three acts and seven scenes by Peter Tchaikovsky, had a libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on the story by Pushkin and the 1921 production appears to have been adapted by Benois. The choreography in the 1921 production was by Leonid Leontiev.
Designer Alexandre Benois had a long involvement with productions of The Queen of Spades which he admired when he first saw its original production in 1890. He had assisted with the decor for the 1903 production at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, and was co-producer, with Emile Cooper, as well as designer of sets and costumes for the production at the State Theatre for Opera and Ballet, Petrograd, on 3 May 1921. The opera, in three acts and seven scenes by Peter Tchaikovsky, had a libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on the story by Pushkin and the 1921 production appears to have been adapted by Benois. The choreography in the 1921 production was by Leonid Leontiev.
Object details
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| Brief description | Set design (with characters) by Alexandre Benois for Act 1 scene 2 of a 1921 production of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades |
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| Credit line | Given by Richard Buckle |
| Summary | This design, which acts as a storyboard showing the characters in their setting, depicts Act I Scene ii of the opera The Queen of Spades in which the young girl, Liza, plays the spinet and sings with her friend Pauline. The blue curtains are deliberately left open revealing the tall windows. Designer Alexandre Benois had a long involvement with productions of The Queen of Spades which he admired when he first saw its original production in 1890. He had assisted with the decor for the 1903 production at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, and was co-producer, with Emile Cooper, as well as designer of sets and costumes for the production at the State Theatre for Opera and Ballet, Petrograd, on 3 May 1921. The opera, in three acts and seven scenes by Peter Tchaikovsky, had a libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on the story by Pushkin and the 1921 production appears to have been adapted by Benois. The choreography in the 1921 production was by Leonid Leontiev. |
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| Accession number | S.4001-2013 |
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| Record created | October 15, 2013 |
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