I disegni del laboratorio scenografico di Metrodoro Conti

The set designs of scenographic laboratory of Metrodoro Conti. In the most fruitful season of Italian opera, Metrodoro Conti (1810-1887) was the most active member of a scenographers family in Arezzo, first under the guidance of his father David, later independently. He worked mainly on commission of local theaters, but its scenic art was appreciated and also required in many other theaters of Tuscany, Umbria and Marche, signing since 1840, set designs for operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Mercodante. In 1853 he also overlaid the dual role of manager and set designer for the representation of two important works, "Maria di Rudenz" and "Lucia di Lammermoor", staged for the Teatro Petrarca of Arezzo. The collection of set design sketches of Metrodoro Conti and his atelier, preserved at the Ivan Bruschi Foundation of Arezzo, gathers a drawings corpus of great interest not only from a documentary point of view, but also for the study of techniques and methods of architectural representation in setting the illusive theater scene in the nineteenth century.