Wagner curtain

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The Wagner curtain (or the Wagner-curtain ) is a main curtain in the theater . With its combination of a diagonal and a vertical elevator, it is a variant of the "French curtain".

The curtain, divided in the middle, hangs in long ropes that are attached to the edges in the lower third of the curtain halves. By pulling on the ropes, the curtain is opened diagonally and at the same time pulled up with a vertical pull on the curtain rod. The enlargement of the opening that is created in this way is reminiscent of an iris diaphragm . The Wagner curtain usually exposes the entire portal opening. The "original" Wagner curtain in the Bayreuth Festival Hall is gray-brown.

literature

  • Johanna Dombois: The eye that alternately opens and closes. On the scenography of the Wagner curtain . In: wagnerspectrum . Issue 2/2008, pp. 209-235.