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Scenery

Beaches, castles, enchanted forests, apartment buildings … opera scenery can take such a huge variety of forms. This is how and where they are designed. It is a collective effort that requires time, talent, and a lot of expertise. For each new production, a real synergy is established between all the people involved in the construction of the scenery.

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Set Workshops

Technical Design Office

This is where it all begins: the first model of the sets, plans, choice of materials, and feasibility studies.
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Set Workshops

Carpentry

Sets are given form and volume by the carpenters.
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Set Workshops

Metalwork

For all the big load-bearing structures, frameworks, hinges, and fixings
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Set Workshops

Sculpture

Ornaments, mouldings, monumental elements, animals, and other sculptures are made in this workshop.
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Set Workshops

Assembly Room

At the heart of the Workshops building, this three-story-high room makes it possible for the Workshops to work on the scale of the opera house stage.
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Set Workshops

Props

Little objects for big effects!
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Set Workshops

Painting

From monumental backdrops to the smallest details, the sets almost always pass through the Painting workshop.
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Set Workshops

Cloth Making, Upholstery and softs

This workshop assembles, resizes, and restores all the curtains, canvases, and other textiles used onstage.
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Set Workshops

Prop Store

The three Props storerooms are brimming with objects of all kinds, made and purchased, which can be reused at any time.
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Technical rooms

Sets lift

A gigantic lift that enables the sets to be moved around within the Workshops and to the tunnel.
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Technical rooms

Tunnel

All the sets pass through this underground tunnel to arrive onstage.
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Performance spaces

Stage

Once onstage, the sets are assembled, then skilfully operated by the stagehands.
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Front-of-house areas

Main Auditorium

Before they can be unveiled to the audience, the sets must first be lit. Very often, video is a fully-fledged part of the scenery. All this is coordinated from the auditorium during rehearsals.
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Technical rooms

Docks

A second life for sceneries.

Technical Design Office

Carpentry

Metalwork

Sculpture

Assembly Room

Props

Painting

Cloth Making, Upholstery and softs

Prop Store

Sets lift

Tunnel

Stage

Main Auditorium

Docks