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pallas_athenayes! YES! I have it!
I've more or less decided how I want the Queen and her Ladies to appear (in The Magic Flute), but I was stuck on ideas for the Temple of Wisdom - which was a problem, because we spend most of the opera there.
I had thought about making the Temple guys sort of like Buddhist monks, or sort of like Lucas's Jedi, or sort of like Gandhi. But this morning, after getting far too little sleep because I'd stayed up too late reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem, I had an IDEA.
If you've read Anathem, you probably already know what I'm about to say.
The mathic world is going to be a major inspiration for the Temple of Wisdom. It's not an exact parallel, obviously, but it's close. For reasons of stage modesty, they'll have to wear something under their bolts, but I think we can preserve the basic bolt/chord/sphere design, along with its geometrical symbolism.
Finally, finally I have it. This is going to rock.
Now, has anyone got any clue how to build a stage version of a huge observatory-type telescope? Or an armillary sphere? I think I'm going to need both...
I've more or less decided how I want the Queen and her Ladies to appear (in The Magic Flute), but I was stuck on ideas for the Temple of Wisdom - which was a problem, because we spend most of the opera there.
I had thought about making the Temple guys sort of like Buddhist monks, or sort of like Lucas's Jedi, or sort of like Gandhi. But this morning, after getting far too little sleep because I'd stayed up too late reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem, I had an IDEA.
If you've read Anathem, you probably already know what I'm about to say.
The mathic world is going to be a major inspiration for the Temple of Wisdom. It's not an exact parallel, obviously, but it's close. For reasons of stage modesty, they'll have to wear something under their bolts, but I think we can preserve the basic bolt/chord/sphere design, along with its geometrical symbolism.
Finally, finally I have it. This is going to rock.
Now, has anyone got any clue how to build a stage version of a huge observatory-type telescope? Or an armillary sphere? I think I'm going to need both...