“To be completely honest with you, I’m worried about 10,000 things'
It’s the most ambitious Olympic opening ceremony in history, and perhaps also the one with the greatest constraints. Jolly can’t rehearse in situ, or the closely guarded secrecy around the ceremonies would be blown. We know his plans include around 200 boats, some of which will transport a heroic procession of athletes, and that his route along the Seine, from the National History Museum to the Eiffel Tower, will recount scenes from French history.
The combination informs his lush, phantasmagoric productions: They are dramatically lit, dark in undertone, mythic in flavor, and always accompanied by music—a world that is part Julius Caesar, part Rocky Horror. The 300 or so costumes Desquest designed for his production of Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette last year included jewel-encrusted skeletons, blood-red Pierrots, death-mask rabbits, and tutus made of giant Elizabethan ruffs—clothes for a ball held at the end of the world.
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