One more from Prague – see the ladies-in-waiting, backstage -

National Marionette Theatre
Zatecka 1
Praha 1

http://www.mozart.cz/ gives you the full details, pointing out that their production “celebrates Mozart’s period and the atmosphere of this era in a form of authentic 18th century spectacle.” There are other marionette versions of Don Giovanni to lure the Prague tourist – accept no imitations!

Paolo Parmiggiani also gives a shout-out, in his comment, to both Jan Svankmajer (whose version of Alice in Wonderland I watched fifteen years ago, on a godawful hot Manhattan night, and fell forever in love with) and Barry Purves, whose work I did not know, but am very glad to see.

Someone just asked me (well, not “just,” it was over the weekend) “Would a movie of Under the Poppy be shadow puppets, or people, or what?” I had no answer, being content, for now, with the question itself.