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Title
The Indian Queen Codex, Book 3: Act 1 Scene 3 -4, Act 2 Scene 1
Creator
Ramicova, Dunya
Contributor
Sellars, Peter, 1957-
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
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: Gronk; Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls; Producer: Co-production of Teatro Real and Perm State P.I. Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater
Venue: Opened at Perm State P.I. Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, Russia (2013) and was also performed at Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, as well as at English National Opera in London, Great Britain (2015)
Scope / Content: The designs for this production were divided into eight codices, in style of Maya codices. Each codex (book) consists of varying numbers of pages that are connected together with artists’ tape. Each book has a cover created with use of Asian paper that has metallic surface in the middle of it.
Type
image
Format
Erasable terra cotta pencil and watercolor on watercolor paper
Form/Genre
Drawing
Extent
47 x 31 cm
Identifier
ark:/86071/d2wh3n
Language
English
eng
Relation
The Indian Queen
Provenance
Gift of Dunya Ramicova, 2014
Location
Box 74
Transcription
Left side upper level: "Chorus: Spanish Military and Maya women, 'Zapatistas', 9, 10, 1, 3"; Right side upper level: "The wedding night, D#124, D#125"; Left side lower level: "The wedding of Dona Luisa and Don Alvarado, D#122, Dona Luisa, D#123"; Right side lower level: "Male singer #4, D#126"". Signed on back.

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