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Gunther Schneider-Siemssen

German opera director
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  • interior of a Kabuki theater
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    …Wagner’s music dramas designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen elaborated this concept to achieve even more dramatic and sumptuous effects; Schneider-Siemssen filled the vast, extra-wide stage with patterns of light in depth, softened with scrims (loosely woven meshes that diffuse the light) and translucent drops (backdrops with sections dyed to transmit some…

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    …Wagner’s music dramas designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen elaborated this concept to achieve even more dramatic and sumptuous effects; Schneider-Siemssen filled the vast, extra-wide stage with patterns of light in depth, softened with scrims (loosely woven meshes that diffuse the light) and translucent drops (backdrops with sections dyed to transmit some…

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