The LACMA show was adapted from the recent Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Chagall-Colour and Music.

There’s music in each section, film footage of Aleko’s original production, and a group of related paintings by Chagall from around the world, including Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (from the Stedelijk in Amsterdam), and Green Violinist (from the Guggenheim).

The forty-one costumes are accompanied by nearly 100 preparatory sketches. Thompson, and together they’ve created a suitable dreamscape to appreciate and study Marc Chagall’s costumes and set designs for ballet- Aleko (1942, Mexico City), The Firebird (1945, New York City), and Daphnis et Chloé (1956, Paris)-and his only work for opera, the landmark 1967 staging of The Magic Flute at the Met. Sharon enlisted his Young Caesar collaborator, projection designer Jason H. Yuval Sharon-one of the most innovative directors of stage music, movement, and dramaturgy in Los Angeles-was tasked by LACMA to design the exhibition CHAGALL-FANTASIES FOR THE STAGE.

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