Italian stage director Barbara Staffolani reveals exlusively to SBS Italian her new controversial projects.
Italian stage director Barbara Staffolani characterizes one of the most complete stage players. She is a dancer, choreographer, assistant and revival director and, now, also an innovative young stage director.
Well known to Australian audiences for her role in Verdi’s acclaimed award-winning 2016 drama Luisa Miller, she has assisted some of the most famous stage directors such as Yuri Alexandrov, Arnaud Bernard, Hugo De Ana, Giancarlo Del Monaco and Franco Zeffirelli to name just a few. But now she is determined to follow them into the fame lane.
“It has been a natural progression”, she says. “I want to bring another female into a world [stage directors] dominated to a large extent by males”.
Barbara has completed two innovative and controversial projects on Puccini’s Turandot and Verdi’s La Traviata. “I can’t say much about the productions that I have proposed to some theatres. I am confident", she explains.
SBS Italian was given exclusive view of the projects and we can safely say that Barbara Staffolani’s La Traviata would be one of the most controversial, modern and outstanding interpretation of Verdi’s classic to date, although it would take an innovative and courageous theatre to produce it.
In this interview Barbara Staffolani opens up about herself, her past and her future.
