Scott Otto Anderson’s video forms integral part of the Puccini opera The Girl of the Golden West which opens tonight at the Sydney Opera House
PHOTOPLAY’s Scott Otto Anderson has just completed the video component for a vast Puccini opera The Girl of the Golden West, which opens at the Sydney Opera House tonight.
Though one of his lesser known works, Puccini felt that this epic opera, set in the goldmining wild west of America, was his finest.
Opera director Nigel Jamieson asked Anderson to make his vision come tolife turning the opera into a cinematic homage to black and white filmand spaghetti westerns. Anderson’s video ‘trailer’ for the overtureopens the opera and his video is present throughout the show usingfront and rear video projections across the walls, ceiling, floor andfurniture to transform the set, befitting the onstage melodrama whilstalso playing with tricks of forced perspective and illusion.
The Girl of the Golden West runs at the Sydney Opera House from July 14th to the 6th August.
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Nice one Otto.
The Arts my dear boy – the arts.
But opera, on this blog?
I wouldn’t expect too much in the way of critique.
Think of your audience as a tit wielding monkey, sitting at a keyboard, screaming for more Lynx Jet; and you wont go far wrong.
That said, your artistic standards are good to see.
Congrats Scott, thats awesome!
Nice to see you getting some coverage here for it. Hope it all goes really well.
Nice one! Like our clients and our consumers we are not all bogans!!!
Reading this reconfirms that there are intelligent, artful, creative people in this business.
Congrats. It looks beautiful.