What drew me immediately to this one work was the sky: its eddying blues, a chromatic extension of the stage’s curtain, seemed discordantly sea-like. It remains my favourite part of the painting; ...

The struggle of two worlds: the classical art of the past and poetic fantasy ... premiered on the very same stage. Still, Siemiradzki’s curtain remained the institution’s centrepiece for 124 years, ...

As anticipation rises for the story that is about to unfold on the stage, the theater curtain--“doncho” in Japanese--begins to rise. A form of exquisite textile art that evolved only in Japan ...