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Visual display of the Plan of the stage setting for Act 3 of the Paris Opéra's 1893 production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre

Plan of the stage setting for Act 3 of the Paris Opéra's 1893 production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre

A plan of the stage for a production of Die Walküre. It shows the sizes of the different set pieces, with two large backstage ramps leading down, in stages, to the main flat foreground stage.

Author: Moynet, Georges
Date: 1893
Collection: The Arts Collection
Description of Original: Engraving
Citation: Brewster, Ben, and Lea Jacobs. Fig 4.8. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. 1997. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Citation: Moynet, Georges. La machinerie théâtrale: Trucs et décors, explication raisonnée de tous les moyens employés pour produire les illusions théâtrales, Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1893, p. 364.
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