Apel·les Mestres i Oñós News
Spanish writer, poet and illustrator (1854-1936)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Apel·les Mestres i Oñós)
- Spain
- translator, poet, businessperson, composer, playwright, illustrator, editorial cartoonist, writer
Last update
2024-04-21
Refresh
2020-01-16 14:47:54
Anglais - The Return of the Old Paper Aida at Gran Teatre del Liceu
Aida - the opera which with over 450 performances is by large the most performed at Liceu - has come back once more to the Barcelonan theatre in a unique staging that belongs to the history of the theatre: the old paper set by stage designer Josep Mestres Cabanes (1898-1990). Aida (c) A. BofillAida (c) A. Bofill Mestres Cabanes, master of perspective and scenography trompe-l’oeil, spent 8 years painting this set. This was premiered in 1945 and was used regularly in the theatre until the mid-60s. With the shifting orientations in the fields of theatre and opera scenography, these monumental 120 painted curtains representing 7 different scenes of the opera remained put away and forgotten in a storehouse outside Liceu. For this reason, this is the only complete set painted by Mestres Cabanes that survived the 1994 fire which destroyed the theatre. In 2001, with a […]
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Apel·les Mestres i Oñós ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): M...