Ópera in three acts (1998) Libretto de Philip Littell. Based on the homonymous work of Tennesse Williams

Blanche lives between reality and fantasy, light and darkness, and this defines her character. Light is the bases for seeing and recognizing, but for her is something threatening. Blanches DuBois lives looking at the past , bounded to everything she has lost: her world is “broken”. Stanley demands her “put the cards on the table” trying to dismantle the mechanism to which she resorts as protection against a threatening present. This mechanism is her masks, her dramatizations, that concealment that exasperates both Stanley and Mitch.

But these dramatizations hold until they are examined closely. Interestingly, Williams compared the character of Blanche DuBois with a moth for its nervous way of moving . Blanche prefers shadows…Light dazzles her, but at the same time atracts her like a moth: it becomes the symbolic translation of her desire, un uncontrolled flutter against which she fights herself and rushes her to death , a symbolic death.