SICILIAN THEATRE AND STAGE DIRECTOR BASED IN ROME.
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She began her theatre career as an actress, and she discovered very soon her passion for direction. Her first directing project, a study based on Dom Juan by Molière staged at the age of 20, won 2 prizes at "Fantasio Piccoli"/International Theatre Directing Festival Selections in Naples (Best Director and Audience Choice Winner).
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Her education and training were deeply influenced by pedagogy. She earned a Ph.D. after defending a thesis on Theatre Anthropology and Actor Training and she carried out her research program in Italy, Germany, U.K., France.
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In January 2020 she joined the Young Artist Program at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as stage director. In Rome, she consolidated his experience in opera productions, opera streaming and opera films, taking part in many international productions: Julius Caesar and Evgenij Onegin (Robert Carsen), Turandot (Ai Weiwei), Rigoletto, Luisa Miller and Bernstein’s "Mass" (Damiano Michieletto), Zaide (Graham Vick), Kát'a Kabanová (Richard Jones), Carmen (Valentina Carrasco), Ernani (Hugo de Ana), Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Traviata (opera films both directed by Mario Martone).
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She loves to push boundaries to develop new experiences for Opera audience. Together with the set designer Giulia Bellé, she created and then directed an innovative video concept for the concert form of “The Merry Widow”, that was staged at Circo Massimo for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma summer season during the pandemic in 2020 (conductor: Stefano Montanari).
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Her work is not just confined to the stage and she often combines contemporary arts and technology with classical plays. In 2021, together with the set designer Giulia Bellé and the sound artist Alessandro Librio, she devised the binaural show “A noi due”, from Gesualdo Bufalino's Novella “Night’s Lies”, commissioned by Teatro Biondo Palermo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of G.B.’s birth, in cooperation with Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri, University of Palermo and The Gesualdo Bufalino Foundation.
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She was the playwright and director of “Inconfessabile Verdi” (Unspeakable Verdi) an immersive one-to-one live opera inspired to Verdi's main Arias, produced for XX and XXI Festival Verdi - VERDI OFF by Teatro dell'Opera di Roma & Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma, with Opera Europa and OperaVision as media partners (World Opera Day 2021). For Verdi OFF she wrote and directed also “Secret Verdi” (2022), a new site-specific opera for Children's Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma. She was the screenwriter and director of “Farnese Suite”, Ciné-Concert in 8 episodes from Berlioz, Bizet, Gounod, Cherubini, Halévy, Massenet, produced by Teatro dell'Opera di Roma & Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Rome, the Embassy of Italy in Paris & RAI 5 as broadcast partner.
In 2023 she directed the world premiere of Donizetti’s "Dalinda" at the Berlin Konzerthaus (semi-staged), the contemporary opera "Mortis Humana Via" at Teatro Basilica (Rome) and a new site-specific baroque project together with EneaBarockOrchestra for the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma at Palatino (Parco archeologico del Colosseo, Rome).
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She has received various awards, worthwhile mentioning the recent 7th HAUSMANN & CO. AWARD FOR THE ARTS and the XV "TRAGOS-PRIZE” - EUROPEAN COMPETITION FOR THEATRE AND DRAMATURGY 2020 (best directorial concept, best production design, best costume design for Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia).
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Her directing credits include: “Woman in Red”, inspired by Bizet's Carmen (Notte dell’Opera 2019, Macerata Opera Festival); “La Sonata a Kreutzer” (Dionisiache - Calatafimi Segesta Festival); “Essere Elettra”, from Sophocles (Ancient Theatre of Tindari – “PARODOS AWARDS 2014” / Best production design, best original score, best actress in a leading role); “Menzogne e sortilegi”, inspired by Elsa Morante’s life and works commissioned for the “Jannis Kounellis Room” (Contemporaneo Sensibile; MDA & Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia); “E io sarò una donna che sorride”, inspired by Sylvia Plath’s life and poems (Macro di Roma); “Nessuna nuova…” a new play about the freedom of the press for the XIX International Urban Theatre Festival - Rome; “Macbeth #NOBUDGET” (supported by Via Baltea|Laboratori di barriera di Torino & Accademia delle Belle Arti di Macerata); “Guardami”, from Le Bel indifférent, one-act play by Jean Cocteau; “Τρωάδες. Le donne troiane”, from Euripides and Sartre (Best Play “MITINCANTI 2011” - Politeama Garibaldi Theatre of Palermo).
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In 2019 she has been invited by the Embassy of Italy in Switzerland to direct the mise-en-éspace for the exhibition “Sogni di Spettri” by Pulsoni-Nerli-Sasso for the XIX Week of the Italian Language in the World. In the same year, she participated in the 47th International Theatre Festival, La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale College) with Susie Dee as Master.