Achievements
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In his books, Die Musik und die Inscenierung (1899), La Mise-en-scèneMise-en-scene du drame wagnérienwagnerien (1895), and his final testament, L'Oeuvre d'art vivant (1921), Appia applied to the setting, as Thomas H. Dickinson has observed, a space law as absolute as the time law of music Dickinson adds that he went further and showed how the space law of the setting and the lighting could be coordinated with the time law of the music through the medium of the living and moving actor. The actor, in this scheme, was conceived as moving always in light.
Some of Appia's finest designs were done for productions of Orfeo ed Euridice at Hellerau in Saxony (1912-1914) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `description` = VALUES(`description`); Tristan und Isolde at La Scala, Milan (1923) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `description` = VALUES(`description`); and Das Rheingold and Die WalküreWalkure at Basel, Switzerland (1924-1925).
