return to Florida State Opera home page Candide
Designed by:
Fay Conway
Phot of Act I
 

Previously used by:
Florida State Opera at FSU in Ruby Diamond Auditorium
Tallahassee Florida June 2002

Description: The set is a unit set composed of a center stage portal with doors (painted globe) that open on a wagon that slides up and down stage through the opening in the portal. Down stage on either side of the protal are two story side units. Each of the lower levels have wagons that move in and out of the openings in the units. The second level on each side has a large window opening onto the stage.

 

 

In some scenes performers appear in the upper openings as in the wedding scene here.

candide photo

 

 

In some scenes props appear on the wagons that move in and out through the down stage left and right openings, as in the class scene shown here.

candide class
   

 

The set includes a large inventory of props such as this cow which collapses in the final scene. Act II photo
 


 

View the Ground Plan using the Autodesk Viewer (The free viewer will download automatialy for the Autodesk web site if you do not already have it installed)

Stage space requirements :

Fly requirements:

Shipping requirements:
48 ft. trailer