Birth Place: Florence, Italy
Camilla Tassi is a projection/video designer, producer, and musician from Florence, Italy. Her design credits include Falling Out of Time (Carnegie Hall), L’Orfeo (Apollo’s Fire Tour), King Arthur (Lincoln Center, Juilliard415), Carmina Burana (Debartolo Performing Arts Center), Fun Home (TheaterWorks Hartford), Side by Side: Sondheim (Rep Theater of St. Louis), Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage & Long Wharf Theater), Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy), Path of Miracles (Conspirare, TX), Handel’s Alcina & Stravinsky’s Rossignol (Yale Opera), and associate to Peter Nigrini on the opera The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist (Hopkins Center for the Arts). Tassi enjoys bringing theatrical design to traditionally unstaged compositions, recontextualizing the repertoire with today’s social reality and audiences.
Camilla has directed and produced performances of period and contemporary classical works, including Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar, a joint theater and opera project of Tennessee Williams and Larry Delinger’s Talk to Me Like the Rain and the US Premiere of Morricone’s Se questo e` un uomo. As an Italian coach she has created program translations for Carnegie Hall (L'Arpeggiata). She has singing experience with the Schola Cantorum at Yale and Apollo’s Singers/NY Phil.
She holds degrees in Computer Science & Music (U. Notre Dame), Digital Musics (Dartmouth) and an MFA in Projection Design (Yale School of Drama). http://camillatassi.com
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