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Costumes for 2007 production of "Amahl and The Night Visitors", St. Theresa Catholic Church, Austin, TX

July 3rd, 2008 in sewing, other crafts, holidays, gallery

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Complete Balthazaar costume at tech rehearsal.

Balthazaars crown, with guinea hen feathers, pheasant feathers and peacock feathers.

Try-on of Melchior cloak. Note work on neck opening.

Complete Balthazaar costume at "tech" rehearsal.

Photo: Photo by Andy Nguyen

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Here are costumes for two of the Kings in the 2007 production of "Amahl and The Night Visitors", by my church, St. Theresa Catholic Church, Austin, TX.

This is the first time I ever did costuming for a play/musical/opera. I did lots of research into clothes of royalties of the period, but in the end, I took plenty of liberty with the design and details of the costumes. One costume was for the role of "Melchior", the baritone part, and the other costume was for Balthazaar, the bass part.

I also made the head wear for both roles. This is also the first time that I made head wear of any sorts! That was fun too.

Pattern or design used: My own design - More pics...

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Melody6 writes: WOW!!!!!!!!!! Your choices of material are beautiful. Very nice work! They need a ratings generator on here, 1-10! You'd definately would be a 10!
Posted: 7:31 pm on September 18th

TRAYNE writes: I think that you have done an excellent job.. it does take a bit of research to do costumes. I have been doing costumes for the hometown theatre and other asundry places for nearly 40 years.. I just did retire to hopefully write a book on my style of costuming.

I like both of your costumes..You did especially well, considering both men were not average in heighth and girth.

Keep up the good work.
Posted: 3:12 pm on July 3rd

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