Desmond Heeley

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Desmond Heeley
Act 1 Lighting Prop Directions, from Norma
1970
Ink on paper.
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Gift of Wiliam J. Schneider.
2019.28
Inscription: 

Top left: "Norma Act I." Bottom: "The druidesses to carry votive lamps. Candle. + to save the real flames for the executioner/funeral pyre at the end of the opera / The soldiers (dark) to form a backing to the druids shield + pikes to glimmer etc. + the druids pale with the votive candles forming a pattern. / Norma to be flanked by two priests. / Who to hold the mistletoe boughs? - cold light, not too blue. - stars? / The opening - Oroveso with soldiers - others very dark."

Provenance: 
William J. Schneider, New York.
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