Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Costumes for Metropolitan Opera Production of the Magic Flute
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Costumes for Metropolitan Opera Production of the Magic Flute
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Image View:
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Costume of Monostatos, detail, lower half
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Creator:
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Marc Chagall (Belorussian artist, 1887-1985)
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Location:
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exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
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Location Note:
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1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
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GPS:
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+45.4987-73.5801
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Date:
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ca. 1965-1966 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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costume (character dress)
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Work Type 2:
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theatrical mask
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Classification:
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Fashion, Costume and Jewelry
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Material:
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fabric; feathers; paint
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Technique:
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appliqué (technique); construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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apparel; music; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Performing arts; folkloric; dreamlike; costumes; theater; stage design; Die Zauberflöte
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Description:
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Chagall designed 39 stage curtains and 121 costumes and masks for the Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute; New York, 1966-1967). The sets are his most admired stage designs. Alan Rich, writing for the World Journal Tribune, described a scene in which art-besotted operagoers burst into "wild applause" with "each new stage picture," which caused some backlash from music lovers. Chagall’s production stayed in rotation until the 1981-1982 season. The costumes are stored in the Metropolitan Opera archive. (Source: MetOperaDatabase [website]; http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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8A1-CHAGALL-AMF-C-A23
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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