One Opera, Three Acts, Three Stages
II. German lighting designer Urs Schönebaum, who often collaborates with Robert Wilson, is responsible for Curtain. Here, Schönebaum uses lighting effects and a dark palette to dramatize the conflicts between Wotan, the chief of the gods; angry wife Fricka; and his beloved but impudent daughter Brünnhilde. Schönebaum said “lighting was part of the set” and …