Report: Upstairs, Downstairs: Fidelio

© Iwan Baan
© Simon Menges

Barkow Leibinger’s sculptural stage set was created from four interwoven and distorted spiral surfaces. Inspired by Piranesi’s “Carceri d’invenzione ” (Imaginary Prisons), it has the feel of a modern labyrinth or M.C. Escher’s impossible stairs.