Volume 43, Number 6 · April 4, 1996
The Cherry Orchard Has to Come Down
By James Fenton
In 1959 Luchino Visconti was directing an extremely obscure Donizetti opera, Il Duca d'Alba, for the Spoleto Festival, and he decided it might be charming, not to say economical, to stage the production using old warehouse scenery, rather than any design in the modern idiom. So he went to the established firm Parravicini, in Rome, and asked the old man behind the counter for his help.
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