La Traviata
by Giuseppe Verdi
Luca Dalbosco Set Design Project (2015)
The project was realized to participate at the "Orizzonti Festival" competition along with Nathan Marin as Stage Director/Costume Designer and Ilaria Gabaldo as Light Designer. Unfortunately the team did not win that year, but since we loved the project we kept every document and sketch: who knows what the future holds! The whole concept was based on 1800's photos. Everything in those photos was manufactured and fake, while behind those pictures no one knows what could have been the relationship between the people involved, or the struggles they where going through. Traviata is exactly about trying to freeze istants of joy: the party in the firs act, the joy of life in Provence, the masked ball in Floras' house of the second act. As long as we proceed with the story, the fake "filter" fades more and more, and in the end we find Violetta, alone, in the back of the photographic studio. She does not have access to that glamorous sparlke of fake joy, not even when Alfredo comes back. She has been forgotten by her old friends that are still living in those fanciful photos, while she is disappearing behind the backdrops and the curtain that divides the studio from the prop warehouse of the photographer.
Luca Dalbosco
N.B.
The original renderings, drawings and elevations of this project are kept in the "Orizzonti Festival Foundation" archives since February 2015.
