The Look

Post by Don Macdonald – Nicola included a few references to images in her early notes about the opera:  ” Stilts, skeletons, a march”.  I created the image below using photo shop for fun to see what I could come up with (I’m a composer not an artist believe me).  These are pretty dark and maybe not  line at all with our eventual design but they at least establish a reference point.  A skeleton march could sound very brittle.  The thin long lines of a stilt walker,  like the elephants of a Salvador Dali painting, may have some musical equivalent worth exploring.  Tricky to get singers onto stilts but maybe we could have projected images or dancers.