Camilla Tassi
Upcoming & Recent Projects
1/2024
Beth Morrison Projects: Adoration (premiere, opera)
Composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian
Sheen Center, NYC
11/2023
Walk on Through: Gavin Creel (musical)
Associate designer to David Bengali
MCC Theater, NYC
11/2023
Silkroad Ensemble: American Railroad
Rhiannon Giddens & Silkroad tour.
West Coast, US
10/2023
Miami City Ballet: Fall Mix (premiere)
Jamar Roberts, music by John Adams.
Miami City Ballet, Miami, FL.
10/2023
THE HUNT (opera)
World premiere. Kate Soper, composer. Ashley Tata, director.
Miller Hall, Columbia. NYC, NY.
9/2023
Lizzie (musical)
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor. Lainie Sakakura, director.
TheaterWorks Hartford. Hartford, CT.
7/2023
Queen of Carthage
Co-production by Early Music Vancouver & Re:naissance Opera.
Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU, Vancouver, BC (Canada).
7/2023
La Boheme: Music Academy of the West
Mo Zhou, director. Daniela Candillari, conductor.
Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA.
6/2/2023
Oregon Bach Festival: Path of Miracles
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor.
UO Beall Concert Hall, Eugene, OR.
6/2023
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde
Salatina LA Chamber Music
Huntington Gardens, San Marino, CA.
5-6/2023
The Secret Garden
Dan Levine, director.
ACT of CT, CT.
5/2023
Organ recital
Mina Choi, organist.
Princeton, NJ.
5/2023
Carmina Burana
Debartolo Performing Arts Center. Mark Doerries, conductor.
Notre Dame, IN
4/2023
Boston Baroque: Iphigenie en Tauride
Mo Zhou, director.
GBH Studio, Boston, MA.
4/2023
Lady M: Heartbeat Opera
Emma Jasper, director. Baruch Performing Arts Center.
NYC.
3/2023
ESMAIL / FAURÉ
Requiem by Reena Esmail (world premiere). Projection Designer.
Los Angeles, CA.
3/2023
Anne Frank (opera, world premiere)
Shulamit Ran, composer. Crystal Manich, director. Projection Designer.
Bloomington, IN.
2/25/2023
Princeton Glee Club: Bach & Shaw
Gabriel Crouch, conductor. Projection Designer.
Princeton, NJ.
2/2023
Britten's Rape of Lucretia
Yale Opera. Candace Evans, director. Projection Designer.
Legacy Theatre, CT.
2/11/2023
Purcell: King Arthur
Juilliard415. Lionel Meunier, conductor. Projection Designer.
Lincoln Center (Alice Tully), NYC
2/2023
Side by Side
St. Louis Rep Theater. Reggie White, director. Projection Designer.
St. Louis, MO
1/2023
South Bend Symphony Orchestra: Crossroads of America
Alastair Wills, conductor. Projection Designer.
South Bend, IN
12/2022
Conspirare Christmas
Projection Designer.
Austin & Houston, TX
11/2022
Cendrillon, opera by Massenet
Directed by Mary Duncan Steidl. Projection Designer.
Peabody Conservatory, MD.
11/2022
La Caccina, Extraordinary Machine
Projection Designer.
Merit School of Music, Chicago, IL.
11/2022
Vocal Arts Ensemble
Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered
Projection Designer.
Christ Church Cathedral. Cincinnati, OH
10-11/2022
Fun Home
Directed by Rob Ruggiero. Projection Designer.
TheaterWorks Hartford, CT.
9/2022
The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist
is a collaboration between librettist Vievee Francis, visual artist Enrico Riley, and composer Jonathan Berger, directed by Niegel Smith. Opera reflecting on Eric Garner.
Associate designer to Peter Nigrini.
Hopkins Center for the Arts, NH.
7/2022
Die Zauberflöte
Berlin Opera Academy.
Alte Münze, Berlin.
7/2022
This Hair I Tear is Mine
Columbia University New Play Festival. by Evie Mason
Directed by Jacob Sexton
Lenfest Center for the Arts, NYC.
5/6/2022
Falling Out of Time
Osvaldo Golijov with members of Silkroad Ensemble.
Carnegie Hall, Zankel, NYC.
5/6/2022
Conspirare: Earth Ritual
Premiere, composed by Robert Kyr.
St. Martin's Lutheran, Austin, TX.
3/9-10/2022
Handel: Alcina
Yale Opera. Directed by Dustin Wills.
Legacy Theater, Branford, CT.
2/26/2022
Holst: Planets
Yale Band. Co-design with John Horzen and visual illustrator Mikayla Johnson.
Woolsey Hall, Yale University, CT.
2/2022
Credo: Conspirare
Programs of music by Margaret Bonds & Benedict Sheehan - world premiere of 'Credo' with ensemble Conspirare.
St Martin's Lutheran, Austin, TX.
1/31/2022
Song from the Uproar by Missy Mazzoli
Opera. Co-director with Gloria Yin, conductor.
Dome Room, Yale Schwarzman Center, CT.
1/20- 2/6/2022
LongWharf Theater: Fires in the Mirror
Nicole Brewer, director.
Longwharf Theater, New Haven, CT.
1/9/2022
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
Concert of new music inspired by Seraut's painting.
Leighton Concert Hall, South Bend, IN
11-12/2021
Baltimore Center Stage: Fires in the Mirror
Projection Designer. Play by Anna Deavere Smith.
Head Theater. Baltimore Center Stage, MD.
11/18/2021
The Cramer Quartet: Seven Last Words
Projection Designer. The Sheen Center, NYC.
10/2021
Apollo's Fire: Quattro Stagioni
Projection Designer. OH, IL, & CA.
10/15 & 10/16/2021
Conspirare: Talbot's Path of Miracles
Craig Hella Johnson. Projection Designer. St. Martin's, Austin TX
10/8 & 10/9/2021
Considering Matthew Shepard - Bloomington Chamber Singers
Projection Designer. Buskirk-Chumley Theater, IN.
9/18 & 9/19/2021
Ear Taxi Festival: Kosmologia's Dreaming//Undreaming
Projection Designer. Pianoforte Foundation, Chicago IL.
6/2021
The Washington Chorus: Resilience
Conducted by Eugene Rogers. In collaboration with visual artist Camilla Tassi and narrator Shannon Finney, the experience includes a world premiere excerpt from the TWC commissioned work “Here's The Thing” by acclaimed composer Julian Wachner and Rome Prize-winning poet Samiya Bashir which features The Washington Chorus and Sphinx's EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble accompanied by Wei-Han Wu; Ralph Vaughan Williams' sublime “Serenade to Music” and a stirring setting of Rollo Dilworth's “Freedom's Plow” featuring Dr. Dilworth on piano and guest tenor soloist LaVonte Heard.
Video designer. John Horzen, assistant designer.
6/2021
Princeton Festival
Kosmologia. Dreaming // Undreaming. Video designer.
1/8-16/2021
PROTOTYPE Festival
Video designer. Composer: Joel Thompson. Poet/director: Samiya Bashir.
10/2020
Yale Camerata
Video designer. Virtual release.
10/2020
Yale Glee Club: A Vision Unfolding
Video designer, with John Horzen. Virtual release.
7/2020
Berlin Opera Academy: Hansel & Gretel, Die Flededermaus
Projection designer.
Theater im Delphi, Berlin, EU. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
6/17/2020
Princeton Festival: A Mirror over Time
Projection designer. Stage director, Chia Patiño. Music director/producer, Carmen-Helena Téllez.
Princeton, NJ. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
5/8/2020
Yale Opera Studies Conference 2020
Video & media designer for online adaptation of work-in-progress opera SALT. Panel: “SALT: A workshop exploration of the online possibilities of opera” with Frances Pollock, Danilo Gambini, Emily Roller, and Jill Brunelle.
3/5-12/2020
Apollo's Fire: O Jerusalem
Projection designer Apollo's Fire's touring concerts of O Jerusalem, with performances at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
Cleveland OH, New York City NYC, Evanston, IL
12/14-20/2019
Fun Home
Projection designer for Fun Home. Danilo Gambini, director.
University Theater, New Haven CT
11/1-2/2019
Yale Opera Scenes
Projection designer & engineer for Yale Opera Scenes. Chris Murrah, director.
Sprague Hall, New Haven CT
10/26/2019
Brahms: Yale Choral Artists
Projection designer for YCA's all-Brahms program, directed by Jeff Douma.
Sprague Hall, New Haven CT
7/27-28/2019
Opera Hack San Diego
Participant in the Opera Hack conference, hosted and sponsored by San Diego Opera, Opera America, and Microsoft.
San Diego, CA
7/18/2019
Tanglewood ShopTalk
Projection design shop talk with Wendall Harrington at the Tanglewood Music Festival.
Lenox, MA
5/3-4/2019
Stravinsky's Le Rossignol
Projection designer for Dustin Will's direction of Stravinsky's Le Rossignol for the Yale School of Music.
Sprague Hall, New Haven, CT
4/27-28/2019
Yale Baroque Opera Project: Luigi Rossi's Orfeo
Projection designer for Luigi Rossi's Orfeo, production directed by Toni Dorfman.
University Theater, New Haven, CT
4/14/2019
Yale Camerata Concert
Projection designer for music by Buxtehude, Shaw, and Beethoven for the Yale Camerata's Spring concert, music for Palm Sunday. Architecture mapping.
Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, CT
4/11/2019
S.C.A.L.E. (Sound Color Art Light Environment)
Vocalist in an interactive installation piece alongside video designer Elena Tilli and sound designer Liam Bellman Sharpe.
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
4/11/2019
The Human Voice
Video designer for Henriette Rietveld's theatrical adaptation based on the Human Voice by Cocteau.
Yale University, New Haven, CT
4/9/2019
New music concert: no chairs no applause no equal temperament
Projection designer for Paul Mortilla's concert of new music for period instruments.
Yale Center for Colaborative Arts & Media, New Haven, CT.
2/21- 3/30/2019
Sounding Sacred: Yale Architecture Installation
Projection designer and vocalist for Davis Butner, Evan Sale, and Isabel Balda's installation "Sounding Sacred", on an exploration of acoustics in sacred spaces.
Yale Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT.
2/15-17/2019
Eugene Onegin: Yale Opera
Assistant projection designer for Edward Morris' design of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for Yale Opera. Directed by Paul Curran.
Shubert Theater, New Haven, CT.
2/4/2019
Considering Matthew Shepard
Projection designer for Craig Hella Johnson's oratorio "Considering Matthew Shepard", production and conducting by Joshua Boggs.
LaBar Performance Hall, Notre Dame, IN.
2/1-23/2019
Good Faith: Yale Repertory Theater
Assistant Projection Designer, alongside Brittany Bland, for Zak Borovay's design of Kenny Leon's production of "Good Faith". Written by Karen Hartman.
Yale Repertory Theater, CT.
1/17-19/2019
The Rules: Charles Mee
Projection designer, alongside Elena Tilli, for The Rules by Charles Mee at the Yale Cabaret. Directed by Zachry Bailey.
Yale Cabaret, New Haven, CT.
1/12-13/2019
PROTOTYPE: Stinney, an American Execution
Projection designer for Frances Pollock's opera "Stinney", presented at the 2019 PROTOTYPE Festival.
Florence Gould Hall, New York City, NY.
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