Panoramas to explore
3 panoramas
Apollo and the Muses · Berchmans Ceiling
Émile Berchmans · 1903
Guide :
Twenty metres by sixteen, an oval canvas stretched more than thirty metres above your head. At its centre sits Apollo, god of the arts, surrounded by the nine Muses. Most spectators never look up — too busy with the stage. What will you look at first?
From the Stage · Toward the Auditorium and Ceiling
Émile Berchmans · machinerie théâtrale · 1903
Guide :
From the stage, the opera house turns inside out. In front of you lie the red and gold of the auditorium; around you, black flies, battens and the mechanics that make illusion possible. Berchmans's ceiling is no longer just decoration for the audience: it also hangs over those who make the show. What strikes you more here, the luxury of the house or the theatre's technical reverse side?
The Stage-Machinery Desk · Backstage View
Opéra Royal de Wallonie · machinerie scénique contemporaine · XXIe siècle
Guide :
At the heart of the wings, in front of the MOVEO desk that drives the stage machinery. To the right, through the opening, the red-and-gold auditorium and the ceiling painted by Émile Berchmans in 1903; to the left, the screens, joysticks and emergency stops of a 19th-century theatre fitted out for the demands of today's stagecraft. Tradition and technology in a single panorama. What would you like to explore?
