The backdrop featured several thirty-foot-high digital renderings of the building.
The backdrop featured a facsimile of Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus" minus the goddess's upper half.
The result is an authoritative, amply footnoted yet brisk account not only of her life but also of its rich backdrop, featuring a cast extending backward through almost three centuries of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Another backdrop, featuring an overview of midtown Manhattan, even featured cut-outs behind the myriad windows of skyscrapers so that, for night shots, a backlight could shine hazily through them to convey a realistic impression.
Dexys were performing their cover of the Van Morrison song Jackie Wilson Said, a tribute to the titular soul singer, although the backdrop featured not Jackie Wilson but a grinning mugshot of Jocky Wilson, who at that time was a household name.
The quarter near Piccadilly and the Royal Academy of Arts has often served as a literary backdrop, featuring in the escapades of PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and, before that, in the works of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Mr Chávez's call for alliances with the private sector and the middle class on "Aló Presidente" was broadcast from a newly inaugurated "socialist training school", against a backdrop featuring a portrait of Fidel Castro, Cuba's communist president.Indeed, Mr Chávez announced that he was launching a fresh "socialist offensive".
Last week's sporting drama took place against a backdrop featuring the charismatic barbarity of Isis, an undeclared proxy war in Ukraine, the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and a widening gap between rich and poor at home.
The backdrop featured the close-up of a black bird's wings.
When the chorus begins, Farmer turns blue and begins to dance in front of a backdrop featuring stars and the moon.
