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Title
Chlidren "C" (Children Extras) -- Act 2/1
Creator
Ramicova, Dunya
Contributor
Sellars, Peter, 1957-
Goodman, Alice, 1958-
Contributing Institution
UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection
Dunya Ramicova costume design collection
Rights Information
Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Description
Production Credits: Scene Designer: Adrianne Lobel; Lighting Designer: James F Ingalls; Choreographer: Mark Morris; Producer: 1987-1990; Co-production of Houston Grand Opera, Houston, Texas, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts , Washington, D.C., De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, Holland, and Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles, California; 1991, Co-production of Frankfurt Opera, Frankfurt, Germany and Maison de la Culture, Paris France; 2000, English National Opera, London, UK; 2011, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York
Venue: 1987- 1990 Houston Grand Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, De Nederlandse Opera, Los Angeles Opera 1991 Frankfurt Opera, Maison de la Culture 2000 English national Opera 2011 The Metropolitan Opera
Scope / Content: There are fabric swatches indicating correct color only. There is #36 and #37 located in a square in the right hand corner on the bottm of page.
Type
image
Format
Fine marker pen (grey), fine black & red ink pen on drawing paper. Rendering is mounted on color pastel paper which has red drawing pencil markings.
Form/Genre
Drawing
Extent
22 x 30 cm
Identifier
ark:/86071/d2tw5k
Language
English
eng
Relation
Nixon in China
Provenance
Gift of Dunya Ramicova, 2014
Location
Box 8
Transcription
Left: "Chinese canvas slippers" Right: "Chinese canvas slippers" written on drawing paper. "These costumes are for children in the 'indoor' scenes. There is no quilting. Boy's suit is a replica 'Mao' jacket and is unlined. Trousers are drawstring. Girl wears cotton smock and drawstring trousers. Both wear Communist youth red silk neck scarves. Boy has black Chinese canvas slippers. Girl's slippers are black canvas 'Mary Janes'. Both wear white socks. Girl has red bows in hair.", "CHILDREN EXTRAS", "CHILDREN 'C' ", "ACT 2/1" written on mounting paper.

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