How The Met Opera Makes The Severed Head For “Salome”

It has to look like Peter Mattei, who’s singing John the Baptist, so they start by making a mold of his head.  Then they have to get the mold off him. “We typically ask them to … start making funny faces so that silicone starts releasing,” says (ahem) head master Tera Willis. – Vulture

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