Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on this day in 1756. This stage design is for a production of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the San Francisco Opera. In the design, Oliver Smith, a renowned stage designer with plentiful production credits in Broadway, opera and ballet, provides a colorful yet somber, mysterious, and smoky atmosphere for what is likely the opera’s climactic final scene.
Stage Design: Don Giovanni
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. Loosely painted scene, stone arch and red sunburst at right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Oliver Smith, American, 1918–1994
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian, 1756–1791
- Client
- San Francisco Opera
- Credit Line
- Gift of Oliver Smith
- Medium
- Brush and gouache on illustration board
- Dimensions
- H x W: 38 × 51 cm (14 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
- Type
- theater
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
