Eight 40 x 60” rehearsal photos will be on display in the bar area of the Opera Club.Ĭarousel ticket holders can visit the “ Creating Carousel” exhibition before curtain and during intermission of all performances. Also on view will be vintage objéts on loan from Architectural Artifacts: an illuminated rounding board (the top of a carousel) and three antique carousel horses. The video element explores Ventura’s photo series Winter Stories, scenes he created as de facto set models and then photographed.Īdditionally, the exhibition includes 28 costume-design drawings from the production by Catherine Zuber. “ Creating Carousel” features eight set-design paintings, several mid-scale scenic elements that were part of the original design presentation, and a video interview with Ventura. I immediately built the caravan, which became the key for the entire show.” That piece will be part of the Opera Club exhibition at Lyric. “I was just making theater on my table, so to have the chance to work on a much bigger scale really excited me. “My work was already theatrical,” noted the artist. Ventura accepted the invitation enthusiastically. We’re very excited to work together, to have Paolo make his theater and opera debut with Carousel in Chicago.” I said, ‘If I ever do Carousel, that is the person who must design it.’ Then when Anthony approached me about it I said, ‘Can you get this guy?’ We made an all-out effort and we succeeded.
It was so moving and so beautiful and I was so captivated by it. “Part of it was set around a circus, a carnival. When Carousel director/choreographer Rob Ashford saw Ventura’s Winter Stories exhibition about six years ago, he “just fell in love with it,” Ashford recalled. “ Creating Carousel”features the work of Italian visual artist and set designer Paolo Ventura.
The exhibition, on the lower level of the Civic Opera House, will be open for all performances of Carousel through May 3. It opens on Friday, April 10, coinciding with the preview matinee performance of Lyric’s new production of Carousel. Lyric Opera of Chicago is proud to present the all-new exhibition “ Creating Carousel” at the Civic Opera House.
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