Camilla Tassi
Recent Awards
- Robert L. Tobin Director-Designer Prize, Opera America, 2023
- Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship, 2022
- Connecticut Critics Circle, 2022, 2023, 2024 (nominated)
- San Diego Opera Hack (proposal winner, 2021)
Born in Florence, Italy, NYC based.
Italian, English, and Spanish speaker. Dual citizen US + EU.
After moving to the US, I studied computer science and music. It's at the intersection of technology and live performance that I fell in love with projection design and storytelling (plays, operas, musicals, dance, and everything in between).
Work as a projection designer on over 100 productions, including SEACHANGE (Miami City Ballet), Falling Out of Time (Carnegie Hall), SANDRA (TheaterWorks Hartford), Elijah Reimagined (Kennedy Center), American Railroad (Rhiannon Giddens & Silkroad Ensemble Tour), King Arthur (Lincoln Center, Juilliard415), Adoration (Beth Morrison Projects & LA Opera), Iphigenie en Tauride (Boston Baroque), L'Orfeo (Cal Performances & UMS Michigan), Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage), Malhaar (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Master Chorale), Conspirare Christmas (Long Center), Mozart's Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy), Handel's Alcina (Yale Opera), The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera), Tesori's Fun Home (Yale School of Drama), as well as for recitals, chamber music, and theater at Curtis, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, IU opera, Repertorio Español, PROTOTYPE Festival, Mass MoCA, and others.
Broadway: Associate video, Illinoise.
produced and directed Song from the Uproar (CT), Talk to Me Like the Rain (NH), La Resurrezione (IN), If This is a Man: music, science, and humanity (IN), an interdisciplinary project and tribute to Italian chemist and author Primo Levi - which included the US Premiere of Ennio Morricone's Se questo e` un uomo for chamber orchestra, soprano, and reciting voice. Giacomo Carissimi's music, Pen e tormenti (NH).
As an Italian coach & translator, original translations for Carnegie Hall (L'Arpeggiata), Apollo's Fire, and diction coaching.
As a classical vocalist, "Cunegonde" Candide, "Celia" As You Like It, and "Drusilla" L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Chorally, she sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum and NY Philharmonic. Instrumental proficiency in piano and harpsichord.
Guest lectured at institutions including Princeton, Yale, Penn State, Pratt, and Dartmouth.
- BS in Computer Science & BA in Music (Minor in Italian Studies) from the University of Notre Dame
- MA in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College.
- MFA Yale Drama