#giant float

Photographed on August 28, 2016 at the Tsukuba Festival(Matsuri Tsukuba),Ibaraki,Japan.

This festival is held in every late August at Tsukuba.

Photographed on July 16, 2016 at the Sawara,Chiba,Japan.

Sawara Grand Festival (佐原の大祭)

This is a stage in Lake Constance in Austria, for Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chénier. 

The first performance of the four-act opera, based on the life of the eponymous French poet who was executed during the French revolution, will take place on 20 July at the Bregenz festival in Austria.

Lake Constance is often used during the festival as an extension of the stage, which this year is being transformed into a 24 metre-high figure of Jean-Paul Marat, inspired by the depiction of his death in the 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David.

The stage design also includes an open book from which members of the cast will emerge, and a large gold mirror.