sleeping beauty

 
Behind the scenes for The New Victory Theater's sumptuous Sleeping Beauty marionette production.  Carlo Colla & Sons have been handcrafting these puppets since the 19th century, using wool from Scotland, silk from China, along with real human hair for the wigs, and carved from linden wood.  The puppets are repainted for different shows, and were featured in a February cat walk during Milan's Fashion Week wearing costumes for Giuseppe Verdi's operas.  T Magazine reports, "Modern costumes are much more intricate than those of early marionette shows, because the change in stage lighting from lanterns to lightbulbs made it easier for audiences to see details."

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*Photo credit/via T Magazine,  "A Marionette Production of ‘Sleeping Beauty,” Created With Centuries-Old Techniques, by Alainna Lexie Beddie.