Medea

The Opera is set in post-revolutionary France, inside some museum rooms inhabited by plaster casts and sculptures, stuffed animals and picture galleries that allude to the libretto. The spaces made increasingly closed and claustrophobic by the light trace the plan of revenge put in place by Medea. The tragedy is marked by three luminous atmospheres clearly distinct from the lights that in the first act illuminate the picture gallery with a warm and vibrant tone; in the second act the light becomes cold and glacial to underline the lucid madness that pervades and freezes Medea's mind, until reaching the epilogue in which the light inspired by Attic vase painting becomes dark and inhabited by very long shadows that become a harbinger of the imminent tragedy.