High tech opera on a floating stage

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AP Television Bregenz, Austria - July 15, 2011 ++SUNSET SHOTS++ 1. Close of acrobats, zoom out to wide of scene showing giant mirror frame and shrouded head 2. Various of acrobats in 18th century costume dancing on giant shrouded head 3. Wide of lake at sunset with speed boat passing opera stage 4. Wide of stage set with shrouded head and gold mirror frame 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Keith Warner, Opera Director, "Andre Chenier": "Sometimes it pours with rain, sometimes the wind is very strong, sometimes the water is very rough, rises and goes down. When you are building it how do you factor all that into the scenery?" 6. Wide of floating stage set 7. Various of dress rehearsal performance of opera "Andre Chenier", with characters acting terror of French Revolution, 1789 8. Close of performer clinging by ropes to eye of giant head 9. Wide of head stage set, representing the death of the 18th century radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat 10. Wide of performers on open book stage 11. Wide of Lake Constance with sailing boat passing stage 12. Various of poster for the opera "Andre Chenier", by Umberto Giordano, Bregenz Festival 13. Various of backstage behind stage set and auditorium 14. Wide of stage technicians preparing set 15. Wide of lake with boat passing, seen through mirror frame of stage set 16. Wide of stage technicians working on face of the set 17. Wide of stage, representing the death of the 18th century radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat, based on painting by Jacques-Louis David 18. Various set ups of Artistic Director David Pountney, Director Keith Warner and Stage Designer David Fielding 19. SOUNDBITE (German) David Pountney, Artistic Director, "Andre Chenier": "This opera is not the most well-known - until now. Because I can promise you that after two years of Bregenz Festival, this opera will have a huge success with the public, it is a fantastic piece." 20. Mid of Pountney and Fielding being interviewed 21. SOUNDBITE (English) David Fielding, Stage Designer, "Andre Chenier": "There are a lot of symbolic images for the audience to think about, and a few tricks. We have a giant knife that comes out of the water, for the prison scene. We have these wonderful spikes that you will see at the end of the opera, which make the figure looks like a sort of San Sebastian, a martyred figure. And then the head itself gets decapitated for the trial scene." 22. Wide of stage as head starts moving 23. Mid of head moving 24. Mid of knife moving, workers on book stage 25. Mid of workers on book stage 26. Wide of stage with spikes on head, and knife in chest, moving 27. Wide of Lake Constance, stage in foreground, German shore in background 28. Mid of city on shore of lake 29. Pan of backstage as people walk towards artist quarters 30. Various of people backstage 31. Various of artists in makeup room 32. Various of artists in costume 33. Mid of artist having huge wig put on 34. Close of artist's face grimacing and adjusting wig 35. Mid of artist having huge wig put on, zoom out ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 36. Wide of performance on stage 37. Close of singer 38. Wide of singer on stage 39. Close of eye of stage set 40. Close of singers UPSOUND (Italian) "Death" 41. Wide of mirror 42. Mid of heroes 'dying' 43. Wide of stage 44. Mid of mirror stage with figure disappearing 45. Wide of sunset with figure representing Death with sickle walking past LEAD IN: One of the summer's most spectacular festivals opens on Lake Constance this week (July 20). The terror of the French Revolution is the theme for the central opera of the Bregenz Festival, complete with giant floating stage. STORYLINE: When the sun sets, the play begins. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5a9b52275914bac427badb55741ea4b8 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork