Orfeo ed Euridice, 1912 © Bibliothèque de Genève

One of the few surviving photographs of Adolphe Appia shows the ageing scenographer seated at his drawing board, captured in a moment of repose. Wearing a striped nautical pull marin and a canvas jacket, he gazes past lightly patterned curtains towards the distant horizon. Most of the room is lost in shadow as the light from the window falls on him. Heavily bearded and greying at the temples, there is something of the solitary prophet or ancient mariner about his bearing...[+]