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IMMEDIATE RELEASE Reed ProductionsTeams Up With Famed Broadway Designer Riccardo Hernandez On Two Opera Productions
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oct. 25, 2000 - R.A. Reed Productions, a Portland-based
scenic company, recently collaborated with famed Broadway designer
Riccardo Hernandez on two lavish productions for the opera world:
Georges Bizet's "Carmen" and Gioachino Rossini's "Cenerentola." To achieve Hernandez's design vision for the beloved classic, Reed Productions built a set that was saturated with color and warmth. The scene shop created a raked deck, three column and header units, and an upstage picture frame. A red upstage scrim of a bullfighter and a bull, painted by lead artist Michelle DeMelo, was the showstopper; the audience has applauded each time the curtain has risen on the scene. The
Los Angeles Opera's production of "Le Cenerentola" ran to
critical acclaim at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Sept. 8 through
24. The set for the age-old Cinderella story, also designed by Hernandez
and built by Reed Productions, consisted of two main units: the Don
Magnifico unit and the Palace unit. Don Magnifico was a traditional
forced perspective unit with an antique-like Italian stucco treatment.
The Palace unit presented the biggest challenge with two 30' x 30'
satin tufted curved walls on either side of a very ornate center doorway
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