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LAC Lugano, ''La traviata''

Lugano

The stage setting designed by Guido Buganza plans to define the spaces with mobile layers of soft and fluctuating voile, reflective or semi-transparent as the lighting varies, to be moved easily with scene changes and during the scenes too.The scenographer identifies in the white EVA - Aurora voile the ideal fabric to support the directorial vision by Carmelo Rifici, in which the stage will also host ...
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... the presence of symbolic shadows, projections visible to the audience of the inner life of the protagonist.The stage set-up will be completed by 39 large veils arranged to form several layers with variable transparency, 1,560 m² of surfaces mostly made with 100% vertical fullness.They will also be used as a support for the diffusion ...
... of the shadows created by Teatro Gioco Vita, an institution of Italian teatro di figura to which, during the last half-century of history, it has provided fundamental contributions, admired in theaters all over the world.The production of the show ...
... proceeds on all fronts.While in Studio Cromo scenographic workshop and in that of Piccolo Teatro of Milan the built parts are made ...
... Klemann tailoring atelier makes the costumes designed by Margherita Baldoni ...
... and the works procede with the preparation of the surfaces to hang made of EVA - Aurora voile, among which the technically most unusual is a large Fly and swag curtain.Having to close the proscenium with a single tail to be raised laterally, the curtain will have a 17 m width, larger than its 10 m height ...
... and it will require the study of a special opening device which will be adjusted in Peroni's test theatre.The fabric backdrops, which include a grey, 11 x h 10 m, BSU - Super Gobelin tulle ...
... are then installed by LAC's stagehands on the main Ticino stage, where one begin to appreciate ...
La traviata
Melodrama in three acts
Music
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
from the theatrical pièce The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas
First night
Venice, Teatro La Fenice, 6/3/1853
Scenography
Guido Buganza
Costume design
Margherita Baldoni
Shadows
Teatro Gioco Vita
Light design
Alessandro Verazzi
Technical direction
Pierfranco Sofia
Stage direction
Carmelo Rifici
Staging
LAC - Lugano Arte e Cultura
Season
2022

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

ATS - Toscana

Muslin and canvas

BSU - Super Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

EVA - Aurora

Voiles

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Fly and swag curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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