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.
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