Slideshow from Giovanni Pacini's opera The Last Day of Pompeii

View Alessandro Sanquirico's designs for the sets and costumes of Giovanni Pacini's The Last Day of Pompeii, performed at La Scala, Milan, in 1827.

Music from Giovanni Pacini's The Last Day of Pompeii

Atrium of the House of Sallust
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Entrance to Pompeii from the Nolan Gate
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Engraved by Carlo Sanquirico
Forum of Pompeii Decorated for a Festival
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Engraved by Angelo Biasioli
Inside the Basilica at Pompeii
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Engraved by Aluisetti
Colored by Angeli
Entrance to the Amphitheater
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Engraved by Carlo Sanquirico
Garden of the House of Diomedes near the Walls of Pompeii
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Underground Chamber for the Punishment of Criminals [The Eruption of Vesuvius]
Designed by Alessandro Sanquirico
Engraved by Carlo Sanquirico
Costumes
Top, left to right: Sallust, elected to the first magistracy; Octavia, his wife; Menenius, their son Appius Diomedes, a tribune; Pubblius, custodian of the public baths; High Priest of the Temple of Jupiter
Bottom, left to right: Clodius, son of Pubblius; Faustus, freed slave of Sallustius; Vestal Virgin; Magistrate; Lector; Soldier