Camilla Tassi
Upcoming & Recent Projects
7/9 - 8/20/2018
Berlin Opera Academy
Designing projections for productions of The Magic Flute and Die Fledermaus, as well as assistant directing for Hansel und Gretel.
Berlin.
5/25-26/2018
Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
Projection designer for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's performance of works by Ravel and Stravinsky.
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/22/2018
Clamare presents Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri
Co-conductor, singer, and projection designer for Clamare's performance of Buxtehude's cycle of Cantatas "Membra Jesu Nostri".
Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/19/2018
Bach, St. John Passion
Projection and supertitle designer for the Handel Society of Dartmouth's performance of Bach's St. John Passion.
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/11-13/2018
Hair: musical
Projection designer for Virginia Ogden's production of Hair, the musical.
Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
4/15-21/2018
L'Orfeo Tour: Apollo's Fire
Projection designer and assistant director for Apollo's Fire's Monteverdi L'Orfeo opera tour.
Theaters in CL, MI, CA. See "events" for details.
4/5/2018
Talk to Me Like the Rain, opera
Projection designer and director for the opera portion of an original project combining Tennessee Williams' play Talk to Me Like the Rain with Larry Delinger's one-act opera of the same title.
Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH. 8:00pm.
2/16/2018
Carissimi, Jepthe
Projection designer and singing the role of Filia for a staging of Carissimi's 17th century oratorio "Jepthe" by the Dartmouth College Glee Club. Louis Burkot, staging.
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH. 6:30 & 9:00pm.
2/9/2018
Vivaldi Four Seasons
Projection designer for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra winter concert Vivaldi Four Seasons portion of the program.
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH. 8:00pm.
1/21/2018
Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri
Projection designer for a performance of Buxtehude's baroque cantata "Membra Jesu Nostri" in this newly-opened performance hall.
LaBar Family Performance Hall, O'Neill Hall of Music, Notre Dame, IN. 4:00pm.
11/19/2017
Joe LaRocca, flute recital. Gonzo Musicology.
Designing visual projections for a recital of works by Reich, Zappa, Adler, Del Aguila, and more. The concert also includes solo improvisation and electronic music.
Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA, 7pm.
11/15/2017
Chamber Music Lab
Singing the 4-movement Handel duet "Troppo cruda, troppo fiera" HWV 198 alongside soprano Rebekah Schweitzer. Greg Hayes, harpsichord.
Faulkner Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts, NH, 7pm.
11/11/2017
Ordinary Affects & CML (Music of Jürg Frey)
Composer Jürg Frey is coming to campus and we are performing his pieces as Dartmouth's Contemporary Music Lab, performances also by Frey and Ordinary Affects. Experimental music.
Rollins Chapel, Hanover, NH, 8:30pm.
11/05/2017
Masterpieces of Mendelssohn and Brahms
Soloist for the Dartmouth College Glee Club's concert of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah, in the role of the Widow.
Rollins Chapel, Hanover, NH, 2pm.
11/03-12/2017
Cabaret
Light board operator for select performances of the musical Cabaret, by the Dartmouth Theater Department. Lighting design by Dan Kotlowitz.
Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
9/24/2017
Illuminating the Incarnation: A Musical Meditation on the St. John's Bible
Designing visual projections for this concert of live choral music and dance organized by the University of Notre Dame. Music including works by Byrd, Biber, MacMillan, and Monteverdi.
Leighton Hall, Debartolo Performing Arts Center.
8/3 & 8/5/2017
Handel's Serse
Assistant director and stage manager for Oberlin in Italy's full production of Handel's Serse.
Stage Director: Alegria Ferrer, Production Manager: Scott Skiba, Artistic director: Daune Mahy. Site specific, outdoor, performance.
Piazza della Badia, Arezzo, Italy, 8pm.
8/2/2017
EMA Opera Scenes Concert
Directing five opera scenes for the emerging artists concert through Oberlin in Italy, scenes from the operas Bohème, Lucia di Lammermor, Così Fan Tutte, Cenerentola, and Le Nozze di Figaro to be presented in the beautiful and historical Teatro Petrarca.
Teatro Petrarca, Arezzo, Italy, 9pm.
7/4- 8/8/2017
Oberlin in Italy: Arezzo Opera Festival
Contracted for the month to assistant direct a production of Handel's Serse, lead workshops, and direct the emerging artists opera scenes.
Arezzo, Italy.
6/24- 7/2/2017
Oxford University Choral Summer Scholars
Singing and recording in an auditioned choir composed of 20 singers in this workshop period on English choral tradition under Dr. James Whitbourn.
St. Stephen's House, Oxford University, England.
6/23/2017
A Mirror Over Time:
Self-reflecting themes in the Catholic Musico-Poetic Imagination
Visual projection designer for a concert including works by MacMillan, Boyce, Pärt, and Desprez. Part of the conference Trying to Say God supported by the Institute for Scholarship in the Arts.
9:15pm. Washington Hall, University of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame, IN.
5/29/2017
Chamber Lab Presentation
Performing Purcell's "Strike the Viol" and "Hark the Ech'ing Air" accompanied by Clara Chin, harpsichord.
7pm. Faulkner Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/26-27/2017
Steps & Sounds
Directing and singing in a small chamber choir to perform live choral music alongside Dartmouth's Contemporary Dance Ensemble as part of a concert of live classical works and live modern dance.
8pm. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/25/2017
Digital Arts Expo
Directing and designing two opera scenes with digital projections and synthesizer accompaniment as part of the experimental digital arts exhibition.
Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College.
5/20/2017
Dvorak Stabat Mater & Bach Magnificat
Performing with the Handel Society of Dartmouth College in a Bach and Dvorak program. Soloists include Esteli Gomez, Jazimina MacNeil, Derek Chester, and Andrew Padgett.
8pm. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/14/2017
Marielle Brady, Senior Recital
Accompanying on harpsichord continuo for sopranos Marielle Brady and Sophie Wohltjen as part of a senior voice recital.
4pm. Faulkner Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
5/8/2017
Springtide Graces, madrigals, motets, and a Mass.
Early music by Amaryllis, Vermont's Early Voice, directed by Susanne Peck. Compositions by Fevin, Tomkins, Morley, Bennet, Wilbye, and Byrd.
I will be the soprano soloist during the Fevin Mass.
8pm. St. Stephen's at Middlebury, VT.
5/7/2017
The Splendor of Handel & Haydn
Excerpts from Handel's Semele and a performance of Haydn's Te Deum, with chamber orchestra. Directed by Louis Burkot.
I will be a soprano soloist during the Semele excerpts.
7pm. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth, NH.
4/21-22/2017
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach.
Projection designer for the set.
Longy School of Music, Bard College, Boston, MA.
3/11/2017
Notre Dame Trail Concert
Performing music by Holst, MacMillan, Stopford, Davies, Esenvalds, Paulus, and a premiere of a piece by Caleb Wenzel.
I will be the soprano soloist on the Paulus.
St. Peter's Church, Manhattan, New York, NY.
3/9/2017
Dartmouth Chamber Lab Presentation
Singing Bach's Domine Deus (B Minor Mass) duet with tenor Gus Xia and string quartet. I will then be accompanying (continuo harpsichord) for Bach's C Major Flute Sonata - Fred Kim, flute.
Faulkner Recital Hall, Dartmouth College.
3/4/2017
Pen e Tormenti: an immersion into the world of Carissimi
Original multimedia production I created using the music of Giacomo Carissimi (three duets for soprano transcribed from visiting the Cherubini Conservatory, Florence, Italy as well as the chorus 'Plorate, filii Isarel' from Jepthe), Italian 17th century poetry, and visual projections of architecture.
Camilla Tassi, producer and harpsichord continuo
Hop Garage, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
2/25/2017
Times Two Series • Contemporary Music Lab
Performing with Dartmouth's Contemporary Music Lab on a program that includes Hub New Music - among the selections, Elliot Cole's Postlude 8 for bowed vibraphone, as well as improvisations and original compositions by Daniel Miller and Dominic Coles. Part of the Times Two Series.
Boston, MA, Magnolia Loft.
2/18/2017
Keep Calm and Sing On • Dartmouth College Glee Club
Performing music from Purcell’s masque The Fairy-Queen, Handel’s Semele, and Tavener's Butterfly Dreams, chamber concert.
Top of the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College.
12/7-19/2016
Tour of the Baltics • Handel Society of Dartmouth College
Performing with Dartmouth College's ensemble across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Venues include churches in Tallinn, Sigulda, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas, Krakow, and Wieliczka.
I'll be the soprano soloist on Paulus' Road Home.
European tour.
11/15/2016
"Songs of Hope" Handel Society of Dartmouth College
Performing with Dartmouth College's ensemble in a program that includes Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, the world premiere of Dominic DiOrio’s I Tell the Story, and works by Arvo Pärt.
I'll be the alto soloist in the Chichester Psalms quartet.
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
11/15/2016
"Sonic Arts Live" Dartmouth Contemporary Music
Performing an original contemporary/music concrete composition in honor of the 1966 Florence flood. 8:30pm.
One Wheelock, Dartmouth College.
11/16/2016
Performance Laboratory in Chamber Music
Performing Bach's "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" from the St. John Passion in a chamber ensemble including flute, cello, and harpsichord. Other group performances include works by Brahms, Schubert, Rachmaninov, and Telemann. 3pm.
Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
10/09/2016
"Journeying la Divina Commedia: Desert, Discovery, and Song. An international Dante Project"
Created original 3D visual animation work based on Dante's cosmology to be projected during the first part of the project. To learn more about the presentation and performance, visit here.
Debartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame, IN.
