Stage costume for Mask for Turandot

Theatrical costume for male character of the court of Turandot in Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, play directed by Giorgio Venturini in 1940, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Costume of oriental inspiration that identifies a mask in the court ceremony. The costume was conceived and designed by Umberto Brunelleschi, who reproposed for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 1940 the same figures that Puccini had approved in 1926, before he died and left the opera unfinished. In 1926, in fact, the figures and costumes for the première at La Scala were made by Luigi Sapelli, known as Caramba. Brunelleschi's costume, made of silk and lined in gold with applied decorations, recalls the fairytale world of the opera and pays homage to oriental symbolism. A sketch that can be compared to the costume is conserved in Florence in the Historical Archive of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (inv. no. 3133). \Details: Silk satin; embroidery in application of golden lurex, silk cords and metal threads; decorations in painted satin and golden braids. Exhibitions: L'arte della Meraviglia, Filatoio di Caraglio, Caraglio (Cuneo), 2012-2013.\nLe donne di Puccini (Puccini's women), Cerratelli Foundation, San Giuliano Terme (Pisa), 2014-2015.\n\nBibliography: I disegni del teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence), 2010, p.261. \nThe Cerratelli Foundation. Costumes for the Twentieth Century Performing Arts 2008, p. 42. \nL'arte della Meraviglia 2012, pp. 44-45.