Norma
One of my favorite opera. While working on this project, I was fortunate to assist Marie Pierre Bureau du Colombier, head of the Make-up and Hair department at the Chätelet. For this production all the cast needed to look like the living dead, representing a tyrannized population. We used a mixture of clay, watercolor and gelatin to obtain an effect of strangeness, rather than gore. It was a very good choice, and it did well under the excellent stage lighting.