stage setting

But it might not be too soon to dream about a share of the world soccer stage setting up in Seattle, five years hence.

As a performer, including on TV appearances like “Saturday Night Live” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the Weeknd has tended to favor elaborate, high-concept stage settings that can easily translate into a stadium environment.

Wills said he enjoys dreaming up ways to incorporate the massive floats and stage settings into gruesome and unnerving scenes made creepier with ominous lighting and special effects.

Their flood of sound charts a ceremonial choreography, creating what Mr. Audi described as a “theater of sound,” “music in space” — not a stage setting, but an aural one.

More specifically, all the world is stage setting — for Taylor Swift.