During the scene change before the signing of the wedding contract in the second act of Lucia, a large rug is rolled out on stage in full view of the audience. “During rehearsals,” David Ellertson of the Met’s Design Department points out, “we realized that the edge of the rug wouldn’t stay down on the stage floor because it’s rolled up during the entire preceding scene. But of course we couldn’t risk one of the singers tripping over it. So what we did was sow an aluminum bar into the edge. Now the rug stays perfectly flat.”

David Ellertson with the set model for the second act of Lucia.

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