Da Metastasio a Vacis. Gli spazi del teatro d'opera fra pratiche e concetti

The opera show entrust the management of space and time dimensions to several orders of roles and artistic skills, wich evolve with the changing time. The space dimesion management, in particular, moves from the integrated planning by the libretist and stage designer to the director's inventiveness who, coming from different theatrical contexts, often conveys cultural concepts foreign to the repertoire conservative logic. Hence, the paper examines the theory of experience; the spectacular level linguistc cohesion; the different contents attributed to the inside and outside of the theater space.