THE OPERA! The first ever major show in the world dedicated to the opera

Royal Opera House, Muscat, (OM) 2019
2019
Completed
Opera

The first ever major show in the world dedicated to the opera, staged for the first time at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman.

In 2017 Giò Forma design the scenes for THE OPERA!, the first ever major show in the world dedicated to the opera, staged for the first time at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman.

A majestic show, directed by Davide Livermore with the creative direction of DWORK, which traces the history of the opera through its most famous arias.

An excursus that, through a reinterpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, brings to life the places, the characters of the most famous libretti and the music from the composers who created the great history of the opera, from Puccini to Verdi, from Vivaldi to Rossini.

The show represents a courageous and innovative fusion between an extremely modern staging – with video projections, interactive performances and live orchestra – and the most classical language of opera tradition.

Opera, musical, prose, electronic music, acrobats, and video where mix together updating to modern expressive codes the great spectacular tradition of the Italian Opera.

Set Design: Giò Forma

Director: Davide Livermore

Digital Content Designer: D-Wok

Title graphic for THE OPERA! over a symmetrical Art Deco hall with stormy skies and globe lamps – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Render of an Art Deco hotel lobby set with stone columns, hanging chandeliers and red armchairs – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designRender of the Hotel Ade facade set: gilded tower, geometric metal grilles and glowing wall lamps – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Render of the lobby set in a storm: lightning, billowing curtains and a flying chandelier with figures – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designRender of the set with sheer white curtains opening onto a garden and lake between Art Deco columns – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Render of the lobby set with a giant misty projection of a woman's face between dark columns – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designTwo performers in a dim lobby set of tall columns and globe lamps, a night city skyline behind – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Cast in red and white costumes around a figure lying on a geometric floor, a veiled statue above – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designBellhops dancing on a black and white maze floor before a red sky backdrop with floating portraits – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Performers lined up on a maze-patterned floor under a huge projection of dark stormy clouds – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designBellhops carrying luggage across the hotel set while two women in white walk along a rear gallery – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design
Two women in white on a dark stage covered by a projected pattern of butterflies and leaves – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set designTwo performers on a maze floor before a reception desk and a backdrop of night skyscrapers – The Opera! at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, 2019 – set design