La traviata by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Luca Baracchini,, Conductor Enrico Lombardi, Teatro Sociale, Como, Italy

Opera Lombardia has launched an international directing competition for under 35 dedicated to the third title of the popular trilogy by Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata. The call, aimed at an under 35 creative team of European citizenship, saw the participation of 50 projects from all over Europe, evaluated by an international Commission. The creative team has thought of a tragedy of intimacy centered on a protagonist unable - she first - to accept herself and her story. In Violetta's past there is a choice of gender, an act of self-determination that also brought with it the sense of guilt for her own double nature, internalization of external judgment and fear of her. The victim comes to understand and finally share the prejudice that accompanies her and for a transsexual, gorgeous and lost in a populous desert, there is nothing but sex and her rich market. The psychological complexity of the protagonist contrasts with - and inevitably attracts - the superficial inexperience of Alfredo, a younger boy with a well-to-do background. This strangely assorted couple moves in a world of conformed and almost anonymous elitists, much more interested in the malignant bizarre of the story than in the real fate of those directly involved.