This Whitsun, Hotel Metamorphosis, directed by Barrie Kosky, premiered at the Salzburg Festival Whitsun – to thunderous applause and standing ovation for an extraordinary opera pastiche that artfully interweaves Vivaldi's music with Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cecilia Bartoli, Lea Desandre, Philippe Jaroussky, Nadezhda Karyazina and Angela Winkler shone on stage in a production that is as poetic as it is surprising.

Make-up and SFX artist Jenny Wieland was hired to create the impressive bird masks, working with a small but gorgeous team to model, mold, cast and paint the masks. As she says: a positive team and working experience, she will never forget.

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