in einem angenehmen und reizenden Tal

Detail, Queen of the Night costume, Marc Chagall

Six costumes from Marc Chagall's 1967 Met production of Die Zauberflöte are on display at the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, NY, through the end of the year. Can't help but think displaying them in a lemon-yellow room sort of leaches the muscle out of the colors (or at least what remains of it after nearly 50 years) -- they were, if memory serves, really meant to be lit in red and blue -- but it was pretty cool to see them up close.