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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Tate Modern Turbine Hall to showcase David Hockney opera sets

Two opera singers on stage against a stylised backdrop of wooded hillsides
David Hockney’s set design for Richard Strauss’s fantasy opera, The Woman without a Shadow. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will be transformed into an immersive opera house as it plays host to an exhibition featuring the sets David Hockney designed for productions of works by Mozart, Wagner and Stravinsky dating back to the 1970s.

The art form might be considered passé by Timothée Chalamet, but Tate is to use the sets as the centrepiece of its celebration of Hockney’s 90th birthday in 2027.

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